Most definitely. The vendors for the platforms I target only support C and C++ so and the software I write has fairly strict cycle budgets, often measured in mi

Most definitely. The vendors for the platforms I target only support C and C++ so and the software I write has fairly strict cycle budgets, often measured in microseconds and sometimes in nanoseconds, so regardless of what language I would like to use and am able to use, I end up finding myself neck deep in pointers.