Have anyone using the C version in librdKafka and how was your experience?
https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka
I've been working closely with librdkafka for a few months now and find it fast and reliable. Many companies rely on it in production. In addition to the Confluent clients, Blizzard has also developed a client that wraps librdkafka for nodejs (which they use in production).
Disclaimer: I work at Confluent.