[stevekemp]

> If you use C arrays and char*s in C++, that's your problem

Sadly it's not that cut and dried. I've written a mail-client in C++, with an embedded Lua intepreter for the scripting. Guess what the Lua API wants to use?

There are many many situations where you need to integrate with libraries that only present C-bindings, and that gives you a lot of constraints.

(Though I admit I was pleased with the C++ API of libmimetic, the MIME-library.)

[yati]

I agree there are rough edges, and for specialized use cases like yours, you might have to walk that extra mile. But when I hear that a framework/library/tool is worth nothing just because it is written in C++ and not in the hip Ruby/Python/Go, it makes me sick. This guy wrote CppCMS taking inspiration from modern frameworks hoping to make life better for himself and for people who care to write webservices/apps in idiomatic C++ and NOT C. Imagine if someone had written a had a well designed, idiomatic C++/Lua API(like, say, boost::python) and open sourced it, would we not have commended their efforts?