so am I right in thinking that every rust function with a generic return, e.g. collect(), sum(), into(), is implemented by constraining the return to implement some trait and then just calling that trait?
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We wanted an API where you just give us a closure with the function body, so our context is just a boxed trait object for that (wrapped in our own closure to handle deserialization of arguments and serialization of return value) 2/
Actually it's not even a trait object. It's just a generic `Box<T>` -- anyway I found it super neat that you can do this even with `extern "C" fn`s. Just give it the generic type for the actual closure you passed it and you'll get what you need for C interop