Is anyone aware of a module which would allow most C/C++ libraries to be 
accessed from node.js apps with minimal work?

Just brainstorming, I imagine this could be done by loading the library in 
a generic process that provides an efficient IPC service. Library-specific 
glue code to handle IPC msgs would be confined to that process, and not use 
the (arcane) V8 api. A generic node module would provide the IPC client.

I've written or contributed to a handful of C++ glue modules for libraries 
and they're a pain to write and debug. Glue and library bugs can crash 
node. And glue modules by different authors look different, so they're hard 
to comprehend and extend.

Pointers? Comments?

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