This reads like a rant about screwdrivers being terrible hammers. By the way, there is a lot of polyglot library code out there that is both valid C and C++, w

This reads like a rant about screwdrivers being terrible hammers. By the way, there is a lot of polyglot library code out there that is both valid C and C++, which is the reason for using "C/C++" much of the time.