> If you have a functional codebase in C Rewriting something that already works would be silly of course. > and size is an important factor you may be reluct

> If you have a functional codebase in C Rewriting something that already works would be silly of course. > and size is an important factor you may be reluctant to trade up. Bloat avoidance is not trivial, in my opinion I don't agree with this in comparison to C. C is still there, but you have destructors and ownership semantics on top of it. Even templates can be used for things like type checking in debug builds.