> You can use C++ as some kind of C with destructors though :P Scoped cleanup is really a nice thing.. C++ is not a strict superset of C. You actually have to

> You can use C++ as some kind of C with destructors though :P Scoped cleanup is really a nice thing.. C++ is not a strict superset of C. You actually have to cast void pointers, for example. > But then you also want templates of course to get rid of your void*. No, actually, I think I can live without that, but thank you. > And oh, wait, what's that? A cross-platform thread implementation (well, sort of, depends on platform)? C11, threads.h. Been there, got that. > A string thing which I can search without strstr? Okay, I'll give you that, string handling is hell. > Anonymous functions which capture? Have their uses, but I'm not sure if C is really the right place for it. > Auto? auto (as used in C++11 and later) is a solution in need of a problem in C. When you don't have piles of templates and iterators, you also tend not to need to automatically derive types. In a world where signed/unsigned integer comparison can have fatal consequences, you probably do want to be very sure about your types.