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> That's not the point. Maybe not, but did you miss the bit in my post about FFI and GC? Have you actually tried to implement a non-trivial extension to a GC'e

> That's not the point. Maybe not, but did you miss the bit in my post about FFI and GC? Have you actually tried to implement a non-trivial extension to a GC'ed language which needed to interface with C code? EDIT: The point is not so much that it cannot be done -- the point is that it needs a human ("programmer") to do it. Which kind of defeats the point of "C-as-lingua-franca". Which, if you think about it C already kind of is, sadly. Any FFI currently in existence focuses on C already. What more do you want? ;)

username223 12y ago
> did you miss the bit in my post about FFI and GC? No. It's a huge pain, but much less of a pain than calling between two GC'd languages. (I haven't tried calling directly between e.g. Perl and Haskell, but I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon. The handles alone would bury me.) If there were one obvious GC solution, then all GC'd languages would use it, and C would not be as useful. But we've had the JVM and countless other abstractions, yet none has managed to be a higher common denominator than C, so it looks like human labor for the foreseeable future.