Agreed on a lot of that. C doesn’t inherently have to be bad (and can often be better than C++) if you are strict about adhering to standards. I like to point

Agreed on a lot of that. C doesn’t inherently have to be bad (and can often be better than C++) if you are strict about adhering to standards. I like to point to OpenBSD as a successful and well-done C project. As a bonus, if you develop on OpenBSD, your program is more likely to have correct memory handling operations (OpenBSD has a lot of very aggressive memory protections. Many issues in ported applications like Firefox were found and fixed by OpenBSD users, but would happily keep running on Linux).