Are there C APIs too, or are they planned? If only for allowing for FFI for the major API use-cases

[metaleap]

I was checking out the "Compilation API" and "Reflection API" pages and immediately noticed the "COM-lite design" statement and the C++ examples. Is there or will there be a C API for compilation and reflection uses?

Graphics and game programmers on Linuxes can easily feel spoiled (despite occasional botched GPU driver updates) in the way major pertinent dependencies such as SDL, imgui, assimp, glslang, various Vulkan dev stuff etc are, in many distros, just readily-installable system packages that you can most conveniently just-#include and trivially link. Whether those are C or C++ or mixed codebases, they do sport a C API (whether exclusively or additionally) on principle. This opens such APIs up to all languages with basic FFI mechanisms, and of course to the "no ++" pure-C crowd itself too.

I'd vote to see a Khronos-hosted project like Slang join glslang in this tradition of offering up open access (from all sorts of stacks via C ABI & API), rather than further cementing "C++ only" as the compulsory single lingua franca for gfx dev and game dev. =)

[csyonghe]

We are open to the idea of providing a C API, and we think such API can be generated from the COM API programmatically.
We welcome contributions to make this possible!