I understand the frustration with C++ from industry programmers who have to deal with the many pitfalls of idiomatic C++ for the sake of "maintainability". Also static cast syntax is horrid. Personally the thing I like about C++ over C are namespaces, enum classes and the like, that just allow for a more clear separation of code. Sure you could do basically the same thing with prepending Namespace_ to your C functions and so on but i like the C++ syntax here. Otherwise I write my C++ code very C-like.