I don't know much at all about game development circles, but have a fair appreciation of others areas using c or c++ for combinations of high performance, low l

I don't know much at all about game development circles, but have a fair appreciation of others areas using c or c++ for combinations of high performance, low level, bare metal, etc. I've found some shops that very specifically use c, but other that use "c++" but that means "pretty c-like, with a few c++ features but don't you dare do x,y,z". Some of these variants are pretty simple, but it's enforced by code/design review (and sometimes tooling) not the language.