C lang has certain features that C++ doesn't. Most notably the "restrict" keyword to make the compiler aware that you don't intend to alias a pointer. AFAIK the

C lang has certain features that C++ doesn't. Most notably the "restrict" keyword to make the compiler aware that you don't intend to alias a pointer. AFAIK there is no portable way to do this in C++. This is relatively important feature in HPC. So yeah, I'd very much support the idea of "C plus templates", at least in my field this would get a lot of usage.