> As you identified yourself, that's not entirely true, because C offers all of those things. You're right, I contradicted myself there a bit. Fixed. But C is

> As you identified yourself, that's not entirely true, because C offers all of those things. You're right, I contradicted myself there a bit. Fixed. But C is almost a subset of C++, except for some technicalities. So it's a bit hard to call it an actual alternative. Switching from C++ to C is more or less a matter of restricting oneself to less functionality (which in some cases is a good thing, but I digress). Other than C it's hard to point at a solid alternative for many C++ use cases. > In a way, C++ is the ultimate demonstration of how important the surrounding tool, library and developer ecosystem is to the success Indeed! This is something that any language wanting to compete with C++ must get right. It's a hard thing to do.