You are talking about something different, I think. Of course, if you need Objective-C features, you don’t get those from C. But if you simply need C features,

You are talking about something different, I think. Of course, if you need Objective-C features, you don’t get those from C. But if you simply need C features, you don’t need Objective-C just for that. In the context of a C api exposed over C++, objective C is not necessary.