"the language features make you more productive" I discovered this is largely a function of the available libraries. In my practice, mostly I need a quick-and-

"the language features make you more productive" I discovered this is largely a function of the available libraries. In my practice, mostly I need a quick-and-dirty hack with sockets, and throughout the past few years I came up with something that allows me to whip up a quick prototype in under 10 minutes (shameless plug: https://github.com/ayourtch/libay https://github.com/ayourtch/libay) That gives me enough of high-level structures (refcounted buffers, hash tables, evented i/o) to either write everything in C, or I hook up some Lua callbacks in case I am really in trouble and have to do something high-level). But most of the time, as I grow more meat and "old blisters" around my C lib, I find only-C be mostly enough...