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by Reelin 2388 days ago
It's the lingua franca in that it's the standard for interoperating. Every high level language I've used has had at least one C FFI readily available.
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We do have a mutual understanding on whether C foreign function interfaces are available for other programming languages, which does enable languages to send system requests (for systems which are written in C) or to create optimized C code to parse documents or calculate formulas. I am aware that the concept of making languages talk with C interfaces exist. And I made the above statement knowing this.