Regarding C and C++, I am slightly leaning towards C. While C++ offers some abstractions over C that are really nice to have, it often feels like an awkward chi

Regarding C and C++, I am slightly leaning towards C. While C++ offers some abstractions over C that are really nice to have, it often feels like an awkward chimera. I see C as a even-higher-level assembly language. c++ was a logical step but is kind of obsolete for non-realtime systems Guidance in a language is a hard thing to do right. I think the only reasonable way of guidance is to make good coding practice simple, limiting guidance is often quite bad [1], because while in a lot of cases it makes things easier, there are those cases where you then have to work around the limitations and this is when you get those "bug ridden incomplete implementations" of that "liberal" language. Which good guidances from which programming languages are you fond of? [1] now that I think about it, I do like immutability in functional programming languages - a not-so-liberal thing..