Personally, I would write a game such as Quake. But I have about ten years experience with game dev, which is probably a special-case situation. (P.S. tastefu

Personally, I would write a game such as Quake. But I have about ten years experience with game dev, which is probably a special-case situation. (P.S. tasteful use of C++ features allows you to approach the productivity level of other languages.) (But the fact is I tend to prefer writing in C over C++, and Lua over both.) (But yeah it would be silly to write a web app in C or C++.)