I think you are right, and I tried to convey that in my last two sentences but in retrospect worded it poorly. I guess what I was trying to say there is that p

I think you are right, and I tried to convey that in my last two sentences but in retrospect worded it poorly. I guess what I was trying to say there is that people who "drop to C"(or for that matter, start in C) for performance reasons or compatibility reasons aren't going to consider a slower and less integrated language. This is probably most people, I'm not sure many people write everything in C regardless of task anymore(such as say, webapps). I still think the initial part stands. C and C++ are not visually or mentally similar languages. Go is very similar to C in logic, so I'm not sure why it was expected that C++ people would flock to it(unless of course they weren't happy with C++, which brings us back to the first condition in that they were probably only using it for performance).