I am aware that all of this is possible in C++ as well and for many things C++ might be the better choice (more standardized compiler hints instead of using pra

I am aware that all of this is possible in C++ as well and for many things C++ might be the better choice (more standardized compiler hints instead of using pragmas, generics and templates etc.). What I meant is that C++ does not add anything for me personally. POD-structures are all I need and the way I fetch/store the data may require the struct layout to be interleaved or non-interleaved (depending on the platform / architecture I am targeting for a specific build) requiring different code to be generated to access them. I do not need to disable name mangling or add 'extern "C"' everywhere (I still do in case the code will be used from C++) when I just use plain C. I like the many new features added to C++ like concepts, lambdas etc. but for these I prefer to use Nim (they just added complete concept support as well).