> I'm still unsure why people start projects with C, or C++ (or other unsafe languages), that do not need it. I totally understand that there are use cases whe

> I'm still unsure why people start projects with C, or C++ (or other unsafe languages), that do not need it. I totally understand that there are use cases where C++ and C make sense. On Linux it's easy: It is (or was, until very recently) the least sucky alternative. All others have (or had) issues with OS support (C#), distribution (Java: OpenJDK vs. Oracle JDK; Python: 2.5 to 3.4 parallel in use by different distributions; Vala: Every compiler update breaks the language; etc. pp.), availability of libraries (Ruby, PHP, Perl… for anything that's not their speciality) or general obscurity (OCaml, …). Go and Rust (and JS, C# and Vala recently) seem to be changing this, thankfully. But those too will depend on the availability of high-quality bindings for all the C(++) libraries you have to use to get anything substantial done.