I've been working on my own DSP library in C++ on and off over the past year and a few times I've gone through the thought experiment of rewriting it in pure C.

I've been working on my own DSP library in C++ on and off over the past year and a few times I've gone through the thought experiment of rewriting it in pure C. Every time I conclude that all I'd gain in the process is the extra work of finding some third party collection library, adding manual resource management where I currently use RAII, and rolling my own struct-based object system, probably with a buch of macro glue. I don't see how this makes my life any simpler.