&gt;didn&#x27;t require the annoying C debugging cycle<p>Are we talking C or C++ ? C compiler is basically useless for compile time error checking because C type system is ridiculously weak. C++ on the other hand can buy you a lot of things with templates, richer type semantics, etc.<p>And also keep in mind that C++11 and onward is very different from C++ of yore and it catches a lot of errors at the compile time - move semantics and RAII really buy you a lot - the downside is that it&#x27;s opt-in so the compiler won&#x27;t force you - and it&#x27;s less strict than say Rust, but it still gets you there 90% of the way.