[lrossi]

That’s exactly what I am thinking as well.

Using C++ in moderation, without getting too crazy with classes, multiple inheritance, lambdas and other such things, works very well if you want to port a legacy C code base.

For a new project, there are many choices: rust, go etc.

[pjmlp]

That is mostly how I use C++ nowadays, for writing native libraries to be called from Java/.NET, or GPGPU stuff.