> Can people tell me why they start projects in broad C++, and C still? I may be completely missing some piece of the puzzle. Sure. --- Compelling features:

> Can people tell me why they start projects in broad C++, and C still? I may be completely missing some piece of the puzzle. Sure. --- Compelling features: - Unrivaled portability (yes, contrary to folklore C - and to a lesser extent C++ - is more portable than Java) - Excellent libraries - Excellent documentation and learning resources - Unrivaled tooling - perfect mapping to how the computer works - Unrivaled performance (other than Rust) - exceptional, engaging, and intelligent community (specifically referring to the cpp community) --- Why start a C++ project today? - you want to write a web browser - you want a platform agnostc GUI - you want to learn OpenGL or Vulkan - you want to use Unreal and you're not a visual learner - you're want to write the business logic for a cross platform application and share as much code as possible - you're implementing you're own programming language - your implementing an algorithm or data structure you've been studying - you're bored - you like programming in C++ - you want to learn template meta-programming - you want to learn functional programming - you want to learn how to write a device driver - you need the performance - you are not writing mission critical software (aka 99% of all side projects) - you're a curious person - you're a contrarian and everyone you know uses Java - you want to become a more well-rounded engineer - you want to learn about the ins and outs of language design and features - you want make a lot of money - you only know C++ Those are a few reasons. Hope that helps you solve your puzzle. PS: Do the anti-C people realize that a kernel in Rust/Nim/whatever would be under a big unsafe block anyways? Yeah, you have to program "unsafe" code eventually. Those nice high level abstractions are not omnipresent, you know. They need something to abstract.