But the tools _do_ change. E.g. - Development Environments High-Level C++ is rather verbose so it is often developed in connection with an IDE, e.g. to jump t

But the tools _do_ change. E.g. - Development Environments High-Level C++ is rather verbose so it is often developed in connection with an IDE, e.g. to jump to a class definition. C works way better with established tools like grep and co, as it does not do function overloading. - Debugging C++ is for me the most hard language to debug, as their is so much stuff you have to keep in your head. Due to name-wrangling symbols get also weird names in debuggin areas. - FFI C is the established high-quality FFI approach and popular languages have very good _C_ FFI support: Python, Haskell, etc. In particular it is simpler for language designers to support C. It is similar to the Java/JavaScript debate, where one might argue that both are interpreted languages.