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> Is this something that happens because someone thinks C/C++ is one language?

Nobody thinks that. Everybody knows what it means. Picking on it is like picking on people referring to amd64 as x86.

Outside the world of people who do write C or C++, most people I talk to really do bucket the two together as if they were largely interchangeable or, at least, a lot more similar than they actually are.

Right I mean one project I was working on who had to write some JavaScript and would always refer to that language as Java. He was a developer, literally using one of the languages, so should have known better. And Java and JavaScript have less in common than C and C++.

Bucketing them together is fine. There are technical and organizational reasons for that. When you're working with C++, you're almost guaranteed to need to deal with C as well, so jobs for "C/C++ developers" make perfect sense. There is also a certain level of expectation that future versions of both languages keep incompatibility between one another to a bare minimum.

I'd happily apply for a "C/Rust" job as well.

People think that. amd64 and x86 today mean the same thing, C and C++ not quite. I've also seen HR people think that java and javascript are the same thing.

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