[pdpi]

C++ gives you an embarrassment of footgun riches above and beyond what C provides. On the other hand, idiomatic modern C++ also deftly avoids many of the C pitfalls. e.g. You don't ever touch new, delete, or raw pointers — instead favouring RAII-based smart pointers, and references. You avoid arrays in favour of vectors. This style (as opposed to old-school C-with-classes C++) is way more productive, and way safer.