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by pjmlp 1072 days ago
I mostly agree with you.

The issue is how "worse is better" culture tends to win, and if the option is between C and C++ for a given scenario, then I definitely take C++.

However if the option pool is widened to more alternatives, then yeah, there should be a sound reason for still pick them for greenfield development, e.g. CUDA, a language toolchain based on LLVM,...