C++ is not a solution to anything I'm interested in (aside from the special case of perhaps wanting to use LLVM). If I was doing e.g. VLSI stuff that might be

C++ is not a solution to anything I'm interested in (aside from the special case of perhaps wanting to use LLVM). If I was doing e.g. VLSI stuff that might be different. C99 and C11 add a variety of nice things, but they don't make the language markedly safer. How long have you spent tracking down wild pointer and using freed memory errors? Every have to convince your boss to spend $$$ on a hardware debugger to find one? (ATRON, back in the 8088 days.) Or look at Mozilla's very real world motivation for this project.