> I agree it's the standard and the only thing that actually works (author's words), C++ also "actually works" and, thanks to its much greater ability to suppo

> I agree it's the standard and the only thing that actually works (author's words), C++ also "actually works" and, thanks to its much greater ability to support fluent abstractions, ends up being safer in practice than raw C code. You can use C++ for low-level system components. Did you know Android's libc is actually written in C++?