Comment by seanhunter

If you come (as the author does to the conclusion)

   > Rust + FFI is nasty and has a lot of friction.

...then I would say you have been living a little bit of a charmed life. FFI in most languages has improved beyond all recognition in the last 15 years. When I look at FFI in rust I can't believe how ergonomic and clean it is compared to say PerlXS (which was the old way of doing FFI in perl).