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by pjmlp 1115 days ago
Unless we are talking about an obscure platform or some PIC CPU, a C++ compiler is available on the same box as the C compiler.

Second, extern "C" exists.

Third, in what concerns clang and MSVC, the C library is actually implemented in C++ with extern "C".
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epistasis 1115 days ago
My single sentence may have been too concise, there are two concepts here: 1) the tool chain may or may not exist, and 2) bringing in that tool chain to the build system.

Even if it's the "same" toolchain for compiling C++ as it is C, adding the complexity of an additional language to the build process, and the extra versioning headaches that C++ adds over C, is enough to kill library adoption.

As I said originally, providing bindings is not the challenge, it's all the other stuff.

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pjmlp 1115 days ago
"To Save C, We Must Save ABI"

https://thephd.dev/to-save-c-we-must-save-abi-fixing-c-funct...

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