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> Levente (leventelist AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> > transform PCB to C++
> 
> That's orthogonal to new geometry code.
> 
> 
> > I think C++ is a better tool to code a PCB editor application than C.
> 
> I don't neccessarily agree but regardless of that, the current code is C.
> 
> It's not at all impossible to use a C++ library from C code but it
> requires writing a wrapper.
> 
> 
> //Peter

Other direction is easier. To use C functions from C++ is simple and it is not to hard to export C functions from C++.

Nicklas Karlsson