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I started coding with Timex 2068, developed for embedded in a past life, thus I fail to see how complicated doing a simple cross compiler in C happens to be.

I also have developed C and C++ native libraries for Tcl, Python, .NET, Java JVM/ART (JNI), Node.js.

Because Rust, C++ don't have a GC, while Swift does have a GC (RC is a GC algorithm) it was designed to be compatible with Objective-C runtime, thus C.

As 70s child, I used a few from that list, naturally as nerd the goal was eventually to get the databank one.

I think it is more a skill issue than anything else.

Yes, marshaling has a visible impact, hence why one should think how to actually make it happen, not much different from using FFI in any other programming language, there is always an impact over staying in the same programming language.

Compilation being harder, only if the developer is not acquainted with C, which seems to be something harder to learn nowadays.

Signal handling is a mess even in pure C, especially since all UNIX implementations added threading support.

Each one should know what is their role, protecting their jobs from late stage capitalism, instead of celebrating it.

A bit more of skepticism and less celebration of our gloomy future, I guess.

Kind of, you will note that it is based on COM, exactly to prevent ABI issues.

Which is what Windows has been doing since C++ replaced C for most of the systems programming stuff, around Vista timeframe.

Yes, Be GUI is heavily multithreaded, so core dumps were kind of common, and stuff like Swing.invokeLater(closure) only came later in Swing, after existing for a while as community library, after folks having the same issues in Java GUI applications.

Note that on Android they took an hammer solution, programming patters to invoke such code on main thread, have as outcome that there are either lint compile errors, or platform killing the application, for those flows not verifiable at compile time.

Prototype based inheritance is another matter.

Original VB was definitely OOP, especially since VB 4, when VBX was replaced by COM.

I thought C was a cross platform language.