Fortunately, you don't have to use C for this any more. Rust has bindings for making extensions for Ruby, Python, Lua and Node, and generally it's very well sui

Fortunately, you don't have to use C for this any more. Rust has bindings for making extensions for Ruby, Python, Lua and Node, and generally it's very well suited for making zero-cost cleaner APIs on top of C FFI. https://github.com/tildeio/helix https://github.com/tildeio/helix https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3 https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3 https://github.com/kyren/rlua https://github.com/kyren/rlua https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon