I can confirm that writing bindings is a big time sink. One of the biggest projects I've worked on is a Win32 application that's primarily written in Lua. I cho

I can confirm that writing bindings is a big time sink. One of the biggest projects I've worked on is a Win32 application that's primarily written in Lua. I chose Lua because of the small interpreter and minimal standard library; a project requirement was to keep the download size small. But I spent a lot of time writing my own Lua bindings for Win32 APIs. Maybe that just means I should have used a more mainstream alternative language like Python, but even in Python-based Windows projects, I've sometimes had to drop down to ctypes, Cython, or the like. In recent years I've wondered if I would have been better off using C++ in a modern style, with smart pointers, string and container classes, etc. Then I would have had direct access to all Windows APIs, plus access to all of Microsoft's tools.