The only benefit as I see it is it being very lightweight + providing tighter interop with C++ classes and C++11 shenanigans. For me personally, there're real

The only benefit as I see it is it being very lightweight + providing tighter interop with C++ classes and C++11 shenanigans. For me personally, there're real reasons not to use it -- e.g., no support for structured/record arrays: https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/issues/67 https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/issues/67