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by CyberDildonics 2964 days ago
> If you have a functional codebase in C

Rewriting something that already works would be silly of course.

> and size is an important factor you may be reluctant to trade up. Bloat avoidance is not trivial, in my opinion

I don't agree with this in comparison to C. C is still there, but you have destructors and ownership semantics on top of it. Even templates can be used for things like type checking in debug builds.