On Sunday, 1 January 2012 at 11:54:46 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Personally, I think wrappers are a waste of time, but some people prefer them to using a C API directly.
I agree for wrappers that mindlessly provide a different syntax for the same functionality, but wrappers can take advantage of more advanced language features to provide better safety, genericity or brevity than the original. These are the wrappers that are worth writing and worth using.
