Whoever you are, and wherever you live on Earth, you are human, just like I am. Are there any universal truth that most scientific bodies agree upon that can be used to make you live both longer and healthier? It turns out that the answer is yes, and it’s the job of the World Health Organization (WHO) to actually conduct studies with expert scientists of the world to come up with worldwide applicable recommendations.

As a developer or as a software engineer, not reinventing the wheel is fundamental. This is usually accomplished by code reuse by importing libraries. In this short article, I’d like to make the case for generalising the concept of a Foreign Function Interface (FFI). 1. Code re-use within a given language Imagine you are working on Java project. You are likely to use a dependencies manager such as maven or gradle.