Is there good interoperability with C from C++? I could have named any two languages, and for most pairs the answer would be a clear “no”. But in the case of working with C code from C++, the situation is a lot better than normal. In this post I'll observe why it's still not good, via the lens of a particular programming task I carried out recently. I'll end with some notes on what I think good interoperability ought to mean. My task was writing some code to target a C-style plugin interf...
