[tragiclos]

> could things be better if we had an explicitly designed interoperability interface?

Yes, we could define a language-agnostic binary interoperability standard with it's own interface definition language, or IDL. Maybe call it something neutral like the component object model, or just COM[1]. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model

[thayne]

The general idea is sound. The implementation less so.