There is a lot of C code out there, right now, doing positively Lovecraftian things with void pointers. If they wanted to port the library to C++, they would h

There is a lot of C code out there, right now, doing positively Lovecraftian things with void pointers. If they wanted to port the library to C++, they would have already. This would let them use something common to the C ecosystem, thus potentially harmonious with other libraries, and hopefully bring some compiler-level discipline to the non-Euclidean insanity.