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Nitpick but I wouldn’t call C a universal FFI, it’s merely the de facto FFI. C can’t meaningfully represent any complex language semantics (not that it should or even could)


It's a near universal de facto FFI if we're being pedantic. My whole point was the reason that's the case is it has essentially no runtime expectations at all, which is a requirement for a truly universal FFI.




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