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On Tue, 27 Oct 2015, Levente (leventelist AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

>I remember there was a movement to transform PCB to C++. I guess DJ made PCB
>ready to be compiled by a C++ compiler. DJ?
>
>Personally, I don't like C++, but I think C++ is a better tool to code a PCB
>editor application than C.


Well, that's the C++ part. I love how everybody jumps on that, while 
there was a much more important aspect in my mail went totally unnoticed:

Do we _really_ have so many, so complex geometry code in PCB that it is 
worth switching to a lib that brings half million lines of code just in 
include/?

I am not worried about disk space here. It's more about how to maintain 
software on the long run and how this is affected by code complexity and 
code size, even if we are talking about dependencies "only".