C++ generally compiles orders of magnitude slower, has far worse interop and platform support and makes it really easy to unwittingly add all sorts of horrendo

C++ generally compiles orders of magnitude slower, has far worse interop and platform support and makes it really easy to unwittingly add all sorts of horrendous bloat. I'd personally still rather write code in C++ than C, but I agree that Joe Armstrong would probably be horrified, and for good reasons.