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There have been some good CPPCon talks on the subject of wrapping C libraries. CppCon 2014: Lisa Lippincott "How to call C libraries from C++" https://www.yout

• hackits 9y ago
  Give credit to Lisa for the presentation. Although she starts with the premise that don't build a OOP over a C API instead use rules instead! Although by the end of the presentation I have to question her recommendations and solution to the problem. Namely her final result is harder to read and understand than the original C code she showed at the start of the presentation. I would have to question the whole C++ language where still to this day they're still talking about communicating with C API from the C++ layers. The STL/BOOST library are a step in the right direction but also a step back with the language that in a nightmare to work with unless you stick a very small sub-set of the language.