This is not a silly question. Yes, using the C library from C++ is certainly possible. There would be nothing non-compliant about that, although you would need

This is not a silly question. Yes, using the C library from C++ is certainly possible. There would be nothing non-compliant about that, although you would need to write code that is somewhat frowned upon when writing C++ (i.e. using raw pointers all over the place). No, this is not a wrapper. It doesn't use the C library to pass queries to redis.