Be that as it may, porting OpenSSL to any other language is Not Recommended. The code is hideous and the documentation is practically non-existent.
The only reason anyone can recommend using OpenSSL is that it's so widely used and battle worn that vulnerabilities are more likely to be patched than in some arbitrary obscure SSL library without all the warts. If it had been published as-is for the first time in 2014 then no one would touch it.
In addition to that, if you're going to create an SSL implementation in a new language, it would be much preferable to do it without the BSD advertising clause, which you're stuck with if you start with OpenSSL.
The only reason anyone can recommend using OpenSSL is that it's so widely used and battle worn that vulnerabilities are more likely to be patched than in some arbitrary obscure SSL library without all the warts. If it had been published as-is for the first time in 2014 then no one would touch it.
In addition to that, if you're going to create an SSL implementation in a new language, it would be much preferable to do it without the BSD advertising clause, which you're stuck with if you start with OpenSSL.