[foreign-jextract] RFR 8237577 minimal jextract tool on jextract API

[John Rose]

On Jan 21, 2020, at 6:31 PM, Ty Young <youngty1997 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Without a higher level abstraction I don't think I'm personally going to be using this as-is. Hopefully the jextract API really lets me improve things otherwise I think I'm going to do everything myself so that the bindings more closely resemble the old API.

This is a fair observation.  It reminds me of the distinction in the
git tools between porcelain and plumbing[1].  Maybe we’re still working
on the plumbing?  But even if that’s the case it’s not too early to
collect observations and requests for “porcelain”.

— John

[1]:  https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Porcelain