We're talking past each other here. When I say "portable" I mean easy to use the resulting lib in non C or C++ languages. As for why would you bother? I don't

We're talking past each other here. When I say "portable" I mean easy to use the resulting lib in non C or C++ languages. As for why would you bother? I don't know, I guess you wouldn't, because you know C++ really well. I've been paid for it before, know it OK, and at the end of the day I'm more productive in C for the problems I want to drop down to that level for.