&gt;&gt;Ignoring C and C++ mean you are ignoring maybe billion $ industry around them<p>Right, very difficult to move the inertia in any direction. The same is true about Java too.<p>But there are fewer reasons for any starting a new project to do it in C or C++.<p>Newer stuff replaces older stuff, Heck when C came along, there were languages with billion $ industry around them. C replaced them.