C might be okay to learn for academic purposes but it's an absolute nightmare to use building real things. Things like strings and pointers are nightmarish in

C might be okay to learn for academic purposes but it's an absolute nightmare to use building real things. Things like strings and pointers are nightmarish in C. Segfaults aplenty. I've never encountered a segmentation fault since switching to modern C++. Just because you use C++ doesn't mean you have to use the entirety of it.