We've always had this situation, but when C was the only real systems programming language around we didn't notice it so much. FFIs were always painful, like J

We've always had this situation, but when C was the only real systems programming language around we didn't notice it so much. FFIs were always painful, like JNI, and we accepted it. This situation is much more noticeable now that we have Rust, Go, etc. all trying to be completely detached from the C run-time. And it's not just those. Even languages like Java and Python that do use the C run-time, they all want to have nice and easy FFIs nowadays, but it's still hard to do it safely and elegantly.