[regecks]

>For new designs: basically just use libsodium.

Check out libhydrogen from the same author. The API contains less footguns (like nonces).

[loeg]

The appeal of libsodium is that it is (or was) mostly an easy to consume NaCl. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think libhydrogen is related to NaCl or the NaCl authors.