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As a C++ fan in the C vs C++ discussions, I remember the days it was despised by game developers...

Just because they use it doesn't mean it's not still despised :)

Until very recently C++ has been the best tool for the job (or more usually C++ and Lua or other scripting language).

What I meant is that I already went through three generations:

- Proprer games are written in Assembly, while AMOS, Turbo Pascal, C, GFA Basic, Turbo BASIC are for wannabe game developers

- Proper games are written in C, Turbo Pascal, AMOS with some Assembly while C++ is too bloated.

- C++ with some Assembly is the proper way, while Java, C#, Go, ... are too bloated.

So it is always kind of interesting to see what the current generation says.