[epistasis]

Interesting, in a unified object programming environment like the CLR I could see that being very useful.

Such live methods could also be implemented in, say, Python by constructing objects from an Avro data stream. Or structs/stubs could be autopopluated in C with the proper library, but that would require the entire POSIX C world to be codified into a standard serialization.

It would be a lot of work, but I think that it still fits inside an Avro-style data serialization scheme, plus proper runtime support. The runtime deserialization is really where the magic happens. And I think the serializaiton, deserialization is necessary to maintain proper process separation, particularly in languages like C.