[demallien]

Grrrr, I dislike C++ - my current preference for a development environment is C with a scripting engine stuck on top, but I nevertheless have to agree with Bjarne on this one. There are enough libraries out there in C++ now that the pain point of having to write wrappers so that they are accesible from C needs to disappear.

It would be so easier if the only difference between compiling for C or C++ was whether or not symbols were mangled or not. Someone writing C code that nevertheless calls C++ code could still compile with the C compiler, instead of today's solution, specifically - wrap the file in #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif

and compile with the C++ compiler.

Plus, no more need to deal with all of the different flags leading to CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, no more worrying if a bool is a bool or a _Bool etc etc etc

Of course, care would need to be taken to not needlessly drag in the C++ runtime if it is not used.