The problem with a lot of these posts on HN is that the audience seems to be rather biased towards low-performance app areas like web, and business apps. Oh no

The problem with a lot of these posts on HN is that the audience seems to be rather biased towards low-performance app areas like web, and business apps. Oh noes! I have to handle 10 requests a second! Take a look at the SWENG-gamedev mailing list for some of the performance issues that people face in games and game tools. /pissing-contest Note: obviously this is not an argument against C instead of C++. It's more to forestall the meta-discussion.