Comment by flohofwoe

My corner of the industry back then was mostly PC gamedev with occasional exploration of game consoles (but only starting with the OG Xbox. But that doesn't really matter much since it was obvious that the entire industry was very quickly moving to C++ (we had internet back then after all in my corner of the wood, as well as gamedev conferences to feel the general vibe).

id Software was kinda famous for being the last big C holdout, having only switched to C++ with Doom 3, and development of Doom 3 started in late 2000.