Seconded, I wish for a way to work with ML models using native code rather than through some Python scripting interface. I believe TensorFlow is there with C++, but it works only with C++ and not through FFI.
It would increase my interest in experimenting with these models 1000% at the least. I really can't be bothered to spend hours fucking around with pip/pipenv/poetry/virtualenv/anaconda/god knows what other flavour of the month package manager is in use. I just want to clone it and run it, like a Go project. I don't want to download some files from a random website and move them into a special directory in the repo only created after running a script with special flags or some bullshit. I want to clone and run.
It's one of the reasons I recently ported the Whisper model to plain C/C++. You just clone the repo, run `make [model]` and you are ready to go. No Python, no frameworks, no packages - plain and simple.