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no auto in C. no standardized data structures. no lambda. no exceptions. and C++ still compiles actually fast. at least on my machine.

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For years developers used C++ without most of these features and built great code. So this is not the problem of C. There are still lot's of great code done in C.

Really ? Look at this code: https://github.com/danfis/libccd/blob/master/src/ccd.c Looks like great C code doesn't it?

Still you see lots of plumbing: 1. call of init functions 2. unsafe array/pointer usage 3. goto

I rather use C++'s functional constructs rather than the imperative ones. It is less code, that directly self-explains the business logic; instead of being littered with (unsafe) plumbing code.

And IF I find a performance bottleneck - I can still opt to use/develop an unsafe lowlevel version.

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