Comment by rramadass

> there are so many subsets of that language you never have to leave it.

I wouldn't call it "subsets" as much as support for "Multiple Paradigms" in the same language. They can all be used together to express powerful abstractions. James Coplien wrote "Multi-Paradigm Design for C++" in 1998 (before C++11!). Then people figured out Template metaprogramming etc. and the design space became even more wider.

Today with all the available language features and library additions you never have to leave the language at all whatever be the platform(cpu-arch+OS) you are working on. Add-in trivial interop with C and there is nothing out of bounds.