I've been involved in this debate, professionally, for some 28 years now, and while I don't claim to have any deep or unique insights into it, I would like to s

I've been involved in this debate, professionally, for some 28 years now, and while I don't claim to have any deep or unique insights into it, I would like to state that I find almost amazing that it still rages at pretty much the same level as it did back in 1988. As I've mentioned before, my first professional gig was writing real-time games and business apps for the MajorBBS, a fabulous pre-WWW multi-line BBS, in C. Since the MajorBBS DevKit was shipped as C source and compiled as protected-mode DLLs (to of course overcome the 640k memory limit of DOS...yeah that was a thing at one time), there were several devs that wanted to use C++ "goodies" to help speed development or whatever. The debate started when Galacticomm, the makers of the MajorBBS flat-out refused to consider it and used many of the same rational as the OP listed as reasons why it was not going to ported. Reading over this list jogged many old memories, which is why I felt compelled to write this rather long-winded post. My local opinion? Use whatever gets the job done and can be maintained and supported at a reasonable cost long after you are gone.