> I'm not quite getting from the article why you can't write in the C "subset" of C++ and add in a few of the more helpful parts of C++ though. I think this is

> I'm not quite getting from the article why you can't write in the C "subset" of C++ and add in a few of the more helpful parts of C++ though. I think this is because of C++ name mangling, which prevents the creation of a quick and dirty reflection system. And maybe compilation times, which must be higher since the compiler has to deal with all of C++, even if you don't.