> 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

> 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.