C++ has so much language bloat I avoid it for that reason alone as working with other people's C++ code is such a pain (most of the time, not always). C is more

C++ has so much language bloat I avoid it for that reason alone as working with other people's C++ code is such a pain (most of the time, not always). C is more verbose in some ways but doesn't suffer all that much from bloat, which makes it more appealing, to me anyway.