The reason why games are written in C++ is because the gaming industry was sold on the idea in the mid 90's and now all the tools are written in it. For low le

The reason why games are written in C++ is because the gaming industry was sold on the idea in the mid 90's and now all the tools are written in it. For low level systems work, C++ can be considerably more difficult than C to organize and port large programs. It isn't "C++ is always worse than C" it is "C is often better than C++ for a given task, depending on task"