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I agree. In fact, this is what I would have expected to read in the article.

The only single major issue in creating infrastructure in C++ is the enormous added complexity in the final library and dependencies.

While you can avoid mangling and support a "C" api by using ``extern "C"'' declarations, this mostly imposes a "c" like, no-oop API that doesn't really save much work compared to a "C" api.