I switch between both depending on my mood and the particular application. For me: Rust killed C++ but not C I have an on-again off-again love affair with C.

I switch between both depending on my mood and the particular application. For me: Rust killed C++ but not C I have an on-again off-again love affair with C. And in its domain it’s still unmatched: low-level close to hardware where you directly need to deal with concepts that are normal abstracted away: alignment, custom layouts, type punning, pointer tagging, different types of memory, cache coherency, DMA, kernel bypass, etc etc Sure you can do it in rust unsafe but it’s (intentionally) a world of pain. But, when you start needing bigger abstractions or you work with a team larger than say 5, C falls on its face super fast. But it Feels Oh So Nice otherwise. Here’s to me hoping Rust unsafe becomes more usable and can be a proper C successor someday. But.. I’m happy to be rid of C++ :-) (I’ve been meaning to write a blog post on this for some time)