[patrick451]

That's only true if you're writing code with zero dependencies, which is rarely the case.

[germandiago]

Not only that: toolchains, IDEs, static analyzers, mature frameworks for Protobuf, Capnproto, C compatibility, Python wrapping of APIs including little friction: deriving classes and exception conversion in pybind11 for example...

There are lots. It is just that some ppl think real world is just like when they sit down to code a zero-dep, no time-pressure thing.