ImportC Rox

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On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 22:05:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33509223

Back to the original article.

https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/

The discussion is that C is the lingua franca when it comes FFI. 
This is of course a very limited interface, non standard and full 
of special cases.

Isn't there a room for a common FFI language. Similar to LLVM is 
some kind intermediate language for code generation, why not an 
intermediate language that describes interoperability?

In such language, the exact memory layout of types can be 
described, the type of calling convention etc.. Instead of 
supporting each language, the language could emit a common FFI 
format instead so that other languages can import it.

I have personally never seen such attempt, but I really think 
that could be an interesting project. Maybe you have seen any 
previous attempt?