Seconded, I wish for a way to work with ML models using native code rather than through some Python scripting interface. I believe TensorFlow is there with C++, but it works only with C++ and not through FFI.

PyTorch has libtorch as its purely native library. There are also Rust bindings for libtorch:

https://github.com/LaurentMazare/tch-rs

I used this in the past to make a transformer-based syntax annotator. Fully in Rust, no Python required:

https://github.com/tensordot/syntaxdot