C++ is really overrated, I wish less software was written in it. I'd wager software written in C++ is, on the whole, more buggy than software written in C. Some

C++ is really overrated, I wish less software was written in it. I'd wager software written in C++ is, on the whole, more buggy than software written in C. Some of the most successful software projects in the world are written in C and occupy the same niche as failing C++ competitors. Top 4 kernels are written in C: NT, Mach, Linux, BSD. C++ kernels like Haiku's kernel are either buggy footnotes or a pipe dream (Fuschia). Git leads comfortably ahead of Mercurial and far ahead of the (numerous) C++ alternatives: can you even name one without looking it up? Rust (and collectivelly all languages that claim to replace C, or just have a significant cult following insisting that everything be rewritten in them) are fine languages on their own merit but I can't see them replacing C any time soon. The main problem with these is that they were designed by people who don't like C. People who do like C would probably love a "safer" alternative to it and similar to it, but languages like Rust just aren't appealing for the same use-cases. The only language that kind of works for this is Go, which was written by people who, on the whole, do like C.