Comment by _gabe_

> Nothing prevents you doing this in C++.

You left out the part of my comment where I said “pretty trivially” lol. C++ is mostly a superset of C, which is why I’m not arguing that it’s impossible to do these things in C++. I like C++ too, and think some of the things in there are great. But the simplicity of C is nice. I would often get overwhelmed thinking about all the different constructors in C++ and what I needed to do to ensure that I didn’t accidentally tank performance by copying objects around everywhere (and potentially calling some invisible constructor that did extra work in the copy function). In C, I know when I memcpy it’s just gonna move some bytes around.

Overall, I really don’t care all that much one way or the other. But I can see how people could prefer C to C++. I could also see how people prefer C++. I really really miss function overloading and <string.h> when I use C