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C++ was already everywhere on desktop computing back in the 90's, with Apple, IBM, Microsoft, BeOS adopting it on their frameworks, and even on the mobile with Symbian.

Then FOSS happened with its manifesto to use C for portability, war on KDE due to licensing gave raise to Gtk and related eco-system, and here we are.

Thankfully I learned C++ on MS-DOS and became enlighted, even with its 640 KB limit it was already so much better than the primitive C, in regards to type safety, generic code and yes RAII was already a thing.