This is an exceedingly silly conclusion. "Similar pieces of software" are coded in C++ and shipped every single day, without anyone saying "and we managed to do

This is an exceedingly silly conclusion. "Similar pieces of software" are coded in C++ and shipped every single day, without anyone saying "and we managed to do it in C++, too!" The emphasis should be on what the software does well, and how, not on what hoops the developers were jumped through on the way.