I'm perfectly happy writing C With Classes. There isn't a problem in my domain that can't be solved with C, and frothing at the mouth about "safety" simply isn't relevant. I program machines and I need a language that doesn't do everything possible to hide that fact.

C is a fine language. Sure it's got sharp edges to poke your eyes our and big gears that will rip your arm off, but guess what? So does the machine. Programming a machine is an inherently unsafe activity and you have to act like a responsible adult, not some cargo culting lunatic that wants to purge the world of all code written before 2010.

I'm going back to statically allocating my 2KB of SRAM now. Humbug, etc