I'm fully aware of pitfalls of c++ (and c), but I keep coming back to them as all the rest alternatives failed to provide the same speed, performance, and small

I'm fully aware of pitfalls of c++ (and c), but I keep coming back to them as all the rest alternatives failed to provide the same speed, performance, and small size. every language has its dark corner, none is perfect, same as C and C++. C and C++ are popular for decades is a fact, like it or not, data does not lie.