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and the C I write is somewhat OO

Have you read Ian Piumarta's paper on open extensible object models? There's some food for thought for C programmers.

As I mentioned below, you might be interested in this (at least cherry-pick-some-ideas-wise).

Are you sure there isn't a better way, even in C?

Ian Piumarta and the VPRI [http://vpri.org] are doing some amazing work related to this story.

COLAs: Combined Object Lambda Architectures - A Complete System in 20,000 Lines of Code.
http://piumarta.com/software/cola
The system is slowly evolving towards version 1.0 which
        * is completely self-describing (from the metal, or even FPGA gates, up) exposing all aspects of its implementation for inspection and incremental modification;
        * treats state and behaviour as orthogonal but mutually-completing descriptions of computation;
        * treats static and dynamic compilation as two extremes of a continuum;
        * treats static and dynamic typing as two extremes of a continuum; and
        * late-binds absolutely everything: programming (parsing through codegen to runtime and ABI), applications (libraries, communications facilities), interaction (graphics frameworks, rendering algorithms), and so on.

http://piumarta.com/papers/colas-whitepaper.pdf
http://piumarta.com/papers/EE380-2007-slides.pdf
http://piumarta.com/pepsi/objmodel.pdf
http://www.vpri.org/html/work/NSFproposal.pdf

Allen Wirfs-Brock and Dan Ingalls are currently working on bringing notions like Colas to the browser so that we can use any programming language WE choose to for our browser based applications. Check out their interview here.
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Dan-Ingalls-and-Allen-Wirfs-Brock-On-Smalltalk-Lively-Kernel-Javascript-and-Programming-the-Inter/

Ian Piumarta and the VPRI [http://vpri.org] are doing some amazing work related to this story.

COLAs: Combined Object Lambda Architectures - A Complete System in 20,000 Lines of Code.
http://piumarta.com/software/cola
The system is slowly evolving towards version 1.0 which
        * is completely self-describing (from the metal, or even FPGA gates, up) exposing all aspects of its implementation for inspection and incremental modification;
        * treats state and behaviour as orthogonal but mutually-completing descriptions of computation;
        * treats static and dynamic compilation as two extremes of a continuum;
        * treats static and dynamic typing as two extremes of a continuum; and
        * late-binds absolutely everything: programming (parsing through codegen to runtime and ABI), applications (libraries, communications facilities), interaction (graphics frameworks, rendering algorithms), and so on.

http://piumarta.com/papers/colas-whitepaper.pdf
http://piumarta.com/papers/EE380-2007-slides.pdf
http://piumarta.com/pepsi/objmodel.pdf
http://www.vpri.org/html/work/NSFproposal.pdf

Allen Wirfs-Brock and Dan Ingalls are currently working on bringing notions like Colas to the browser so that we can use any programming language WE choose to for our browser based applications. Check out their interview here.
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Dan-Ingalls-and-Allen-Wirfs-Brock-On-Smalltalk-Lively-Kernel-Javascript-and-Programming-the-Inter/

Ian Piumarta and the VPRI [http://vpri.org] are doing some amazing work related to this story.

COLAs: Combined Object Lambda Architectures - A Complete System in 20,000 Lines of Code.
http://piumarta.com/software/cola
The system is slowly evolving towards version 1.0 which
        * is completely self-describing (from the metal, or even FPGA gates, up) exposing all aspects of its implementation for inspection and incremental modification;
        * treats state and behaviour as orthogonal but mutually-completing descriptions of computation;
        * treats static and dynamic compilation as two extremes of a continuum;
        * treats static and dynamic typing as two extremes of a continuum; and
        * late-binds absolutely everything: programming (parsing through codegen to runtime and ABI), applications (libraries, communications facilities), interaction (graphics frameworks, rendering algorithms), and so on.

http://piumarta.com/papers/colas-whitepaper.pdf
http://piumarta.com/papers/EE380-2007-slides.pdf
http://piumarta.com/pepsi/objmodel.pdf
http://www.vpri.org/html/work/NSFproposal.pdf

Allen Wirfs-Brock and Dan Ingalls are currently working on bringing notions like Colas to the browser so that we can use any programming language WE choose to for our browser based applications. Check out their interview here.
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Dan-Ingalls-and-Allen-Wirfs-Brock-On-Smalltalk-Lively-Kernel-Javascript-and-Programming-the-Inter/

Ian Piumarta and the VPRI [http://vpri.org] are doing some amazing work related to this story.

COLAs: Combined Object Lambda Architectures - A Complete System in 20,000 Lines of Code.
http://piumarta.com/software/cola
The system is slowly evolving towards version 1.0 which
        * is completely self-describing (from the metal, or even FPGA gates, up) exposing all aspects of its implementation for inspection and incremental modification;
        * treats state and behaviour as orthogonal but mutually-completing descriptions of computation;
        * treats static and dynamic compilation as two extremes of a continuum;
        * treats static and dynamic typing as two extremes of a continuum; and
        * late-binds absolutely everything: programming (parsing through codegen to runtime and ABI), applications (libraries, communications facilities), interaction (graphics frameworks, rendering algorithms), and so on.

http://piumarta.com/papers/colas-whitepaper.pdf
http://piumarta.com/papers/EE380-2007-slides.pdf
http://piumarta.com/pepsi/objmodel.pdf
http://www.vpri.org/html/work/NSFproposal.pdf

Allen Wirfs-Brock and Dan Ingalls are currently working on bringing notions like Colas to the browser so that we can use any programming language WE choose to for our browser based applications. Check out their interview here.
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Dan-Ingalls-and-Allen-Wirfs-Brock-On-Smalltalk-Lively-Kernel-Javascript-and-Programming-the-Inter/

... these.

OMeta: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~awarth/ometa/
The more recent OMeta 2.0: http://jarrett.cs.ucla.edu/ometa-js/
And, of course, COLA - http://piumarta.com/software/cola/

Self-sustainment, anyone? ;-)
One more link: http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/s3/