[revelio]

Native library interfacing isn't really Python's strong suit, interpreter plugins are quite painful to write.

.NET has P/Invoke which is much nicer.

JVM is getting Panama+jextract, which is the nicest yet. You can go straight from header files to pure Java bindings which don't need any extra native code at all. But it's not shipped yet :(

[alanfranz]

What is an “interpreter plugin?” Writing a Python C extension is not that painful, it’s quite well supported. And you’ve got cffi and ctypes as well.

[baq]

Python has had cffi since figuratively forever, so I’m not sure why you compare native modules to P/Invoke?

[revelio]

Most important libraries with native components are using C extensions, not cffi.