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Everyone will benefit, even the Java community: Now that there's competition again, new constructs are—surprise!—again being considered for Java

Do languages have to sacrifice anything?

.NET goes much further: A routine written in a language L1 may call another routine written in a different language L2. A module in L1 may declare a variable whose type is a class declared in L2, and then call the corresponding L2 routines on that variable. If both languages are object oriented, a class in L1 can inherit from a class in L2. Exceptions triggered by a routine written in L1 and not handled on the L1 side will be passed to the caller, which—if written in L2—will process it using L2's own exception-handling mechanism. During a debugging session, you may move freely and seamlessly across modules written in L1 and L2. I don't know about you, but I've never seen anything coming even close to this level of interoperability.

Installer: Axum is an incubation project from Microsoft’s Parallel Computing Platform that aims to validate a safe and productive parallel programming model for the .NET framework. It’s a language that builds upon the architecture of the web and the principles of isolation, actors, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability and developer productivity. Other advanced concepts we are exploring are data flow networks, asynchronous methods, and type annotations for taming side-effects. Programmer's Guide: Use this simple and easy to follow programmer's guide to learn how to create safe, scalable, and responsive applications with the Axum language. Language Specification: A detailed specification of the Axum language.

C++ Interop is recommended over explicit PInvoke because it provides better type safety, is typically less tedious to implement, is more forgiving if the unmanaged API is modified, and makes performance enhancements possible that are not possible with explicit PInvoke.

C++ Interop allows COM components to be accessed at will and does not require separate interop assemblies

Then just use the ExWebClient class to make your requests;

Public Class CookieWebClient : Inherits WebClient ' overridden to add cookie headers to http requests. Protected Overrides Function GetWebRequest(ByVal address As System.Uri) As System.Net.WebRequest Dim request As WebRequest = MyBase.GetWebRequest(address) If TypeOf request Is HttpWebRequest Then DirectCast(request, HttpWebRequest).CookieContainer = _cookies End If Return request End Function ' overridden to save cookies to the container for http requests. Protected Overrides Function GetWebResponse(ByVal request As System.Net.WebRequest) As System.Net.WebResponse Dim response As WebResponse = MyBase.GetWebResponse(request) If TypeOf response Is HttpWebResponse Then _cookies.Add(response.ResponseUri, DirectCast(response, HttpWebResponse).Cookies) End If Return response End Function ' overridden to save cookies to the container for async http requests. Protected Overrides Function GetWebResponse(ByVal request As System.Net.WebRequest, ByVal result As System.IAsyncResult) As System.Net.WebResponse Dim response As WebResponse = MyBase.GetWebResponse(request, result) If TypeOf response Is HttpWebResponse Then _cookies.Add(response.ResponseUri, DirectCast(response, HttpWebResponse).Cookies) End If Return response End Function Private Shared _cookies As CookieContainer = New CookieContainer End Class