FFI with GraalVM Native Image: The Real Work of Maintaining a Library That Crosses Language Boundaries

This blog post discusses the practical challenges of maintaining a library that facilitates cross-language integration using FFI (Foreign Function Interface) with GraalVM's native-image approach. The author delves into the real-world complexities that arise when exposing a Clojure-based database to Rust, highlighting issues related to Git and Lucene management, and varying environments from developer machines to CI containers.