[gwenzek]

If you think this paper is pro-C++, read it again:

> many languages like C++ or Java are now old enough that if they would have > offered significant advantage over C, they should have supplanted C by now, > this clearly hasn’t happened.

I don't agree with all the points though and the rhetoric is pretty weak IMO, like the point about cars being safe for pedestrians.

But I agree with the points about C being simple and having great tooling (thanks to being simple).