C++ surpassed C performance decades ago. While C still has some lingering cachet from its history of being “fast”, most software engineers have not worked at a

C++ surpassed C performance decades ago. While C still has some lingering cachet from its history of being “fast”, most software engineers have not worked at a time when it was actually true. C has never been that amenable to scalable optimization, due mostly to very limited abstractions and compile-time codegen.