Very interesting: this is directly analogous to something that happened in Java: people started out writing native code to conform to a standard Java interface.

Very interesting: this is directly analogous to something that happened in Java: people started out writing native code to conform to a standard Java interface. They ended up writing Java that mapped to the native code very closely, and then abstracted all of those implementations in Java. SWT is the poster child for this movement, but it happened in other places too.