I have some extremely unwieldy off-heap operations currently implemented in Java (like quicksort for 128 bit records) that would be very nice to offload as FFI calls to the corresponding a single-line C++ function.
Because "some inconvenience/unmet requirement" from a language is not an invitation to "throw out the whole platform and your existing code and tooling, and learn/adopt/use an entirely different, single-vendor platform".
Except if we're talking about some college student or hobbyist picking their first language and exploring the language space...
Assuming it is "sort for 128bit records", that's something C# does really well - writing optimized code with structs / Vector128<T> / pointer arithmetic when really needed without going through FFI and having to maintain separate build step and project parts for a different platform.
But even if it was needed, such records can be commonly represented by the same structs both at C#'s and C++'s sides without overhead.
An array of such could be passed as is as a pointer, or vice versa - a buffer of struts allocated in C/C++ can be wrapped in a Span<Record128> and transparently interact with the rest of standard library without having to touch unsafe (aside from eventually freeing it, should that be necessary).
I have some extremely unwieldy off-heap operations currently implemented in Java (like quicksort for 128 bit records) that would be very nice to offload as FFI calls to the corresponding a single-line C++ function.