There is plenty of bloat in modern systems, so we do seem to have overcome that worry in the average programmer's mindset. There is a significant difference be

There is plenty of bloat in modern systems, so we do seem to have overcome that worry in the average programmer's mindset. There is a significant difference between the asm/C jump and the C/managed jump though- even though early C compilers had a performance penalty, the C language semantics are very amenable to optimization and the cases where you could do better in asm are pretty rare. Your typical dynamically typed, garbage collected scripting language, on the other hand, is not very nice to optimize. It may be "good enough," but there's plenty of good reasons people still start new projects in C++, and there's a reason for the recent resurgence of more static languages like Go, Julia, Swift, Rust, etc.