Comment by com2kid
12 hours ago
You can do anything in C that you want to. Of course one can make v-tables and all of that, and even do inheritance.
But having the "class" keyword is nice. Having built in support for member functions is nice.
Sometimes a person just wants the simplicity of C++ 2003.
(In reality I was working on a project where our compiler only supported C++ 2003 and we had a UI library written in C++ 2003 and honestly pure C UI libraries kind of suck compared to just sprinkling in a bit of C++ sugar.)
How about destructors?
You can obviously build any runtime system you desire in C, including one that parses and executes C code with additional features added in. The wisdom of doing this is questionable.
Though I've actually seen macro systems that do things akin to destructors, although less automatically.