I find this is the first thing a lot of C++ devs do if the wrappers don't exist. It is actually kind of important in C++ if your app uses exceptions and you wan

I find this is the first thing a lot of C++ devs do if the wrappers don't exist. It is actually kind of important in C++ if your app uses exceptions and you want to have exception (somewhat-)safe code. Using the C API directly would require a lot of boilerplate to ensure all allocated things are cleaned up if an exception is thrown.