[npsimons]

Honestly? Don't know, don't care. And yes, we have arguments about the pros and cons of programming languages all the time. I'm guessing that Java started down this road of appearing more "professional", and that went some ways towards people actually wanting to prove it, so things like accountability and reproducibility started getting serious consideration in mainstream programming. And it's not like everything is Java; git, vera, cpplint, valgrind are all not written in Java.

To be honest, the only reason we are using C++ is because it's mandated by the project, and quite frankly, it's what we're good at (we'd probably be working another C++ project if this one wasn't in C++). And yes, we know C++ is a kludge; quite frankly, I wouldn't trust a C++ "expert" who didn't question design decisions of C++.