[AboutTheWhisles]

I've written and shipped plenty of software with modern C++. Ownership and move semantics mean that after writing a few helper and utility functions, things go pretty smoothly. The most concise and direct software I've written has all been in C++. I can organize and transform data directly instead of jumping through hoops or suffering from enormous amounts of overhead and indirection in a scripting language.

Not to mention I can create stand alone executables that have no dependencies and wind up smaller than most scripting language's interpreters for entire openGL based programs with GUIs.

One thing that doesn't often seem to get considered here is what your user wishes you wrote it in. I don't want my software to come as an assortment of scripts that depend on interpreters that themselves might have dependencies. One file is all it has to be.

[lallysingh]

There are plenty of directly compiled languages with good performance, linking to C APIs, and higher level abstractions.

Rust, Haskell, Go, and Erlang come to mind.