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It's no secret that I dislike C. That said, I'm very pleased to see libraries like this, because I think that much of what are extolled as the benefits of OOP can be achieved with effective use of message-passing between modules. This handles both stateless and stateful components well, in many cases better than C++/Java-style class-oriented OOP.

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There are some developers who think that OOP is a bless; other developers think that OOP is a sh*t and try to stay away from it as much as possible.

I think that just like everything else in the world, it has some benefits and some downsides.

For me, the greatest benefit is that it enforces some sort of code modularity/standardization and helps people keep their code organized. Note that i am not asserting that any OO code is inherently better written.

While designing libmodule, i always focused on that, plus being simple that, imo, should always be the primary goal while writing any library.

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