> could things be better if we had an explicitly designed interoperability interface? Yes, we could define a language-agnostic binary interoperability standard

> 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model