[pekk]

Many other languages have industrial support, a proven toolchain, and are known by a lot of candidates: Java, C#, modern C... this is if we restrict ourselves to only the most popular languages with compile-time type enforcement, which is fairly arbitrary.

It's okay to admit that you like C++, it's what you know best, and that it's not unsuitable for the things you want to do. The same as someone else says that about F# or Lua.

[blub]

Yes, there are many alternatives. None of which offer the same advantages as C++. If one can swallow the costs, by all means, be my guest and use whatever language you want, no one will care much, unless you end up using 13% CPU rendering a blinking cursor.

But that's not what you and others are arguing here... instead you're arguing that there are no reasons to use C++ and one should use other languages instead. Which is pure nonsense.