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>C++ can omit all this, and can do simple bit shifts instead of multiplications.

Irrelevant. We need good lib in C

The claim is more that the C++ std is designed to take advantage of C++ language features. Mimicking the same API in C isn't a good lib, the C API shape would need to be different.

Who are "we" and what's wrong with all existing options?

Existing options like? Using 3rd party libs for basic data structures?

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