> No, it's C :) And for me that's not even a hot take anymore,

For me, I switched away from C++ in 2008 or thereabouts. For anything that needs a higher level of abstraction than C, I'll use Lisp, Python, Java, C#[1], etc.

You might enjoy (shameless plug to my own blog):

https://www.lelanthran.com/chap9/content.html

https://www.lelanthran.com/chap13/content.html

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[1] Although, C# has lately gone the way of becoming incomprehensible syntax-wise. I've seen this happen with C++ in the past, so not so sure I'll even use C# again.