I also think C++ is uniquely bad for this. There are maybe other languages that would fare better, perhaps even C. For example, CoreFoundation has a C API... t

I also think C++ is uniquely bad for this. There are maybe other languages that would fare better, perhaps even C. For example, CoreFoundation has a C API... that would be a bit of a test of a C-only framework world. You can see however that's missing the convenience of Obj-C. I hope Swift will be successful. It is nice to use (most of the time).