alt Hacker NewsEven trivial stuff causes the linking to vcruntime, this is an extra dll dependency that I don't tolerate, no msvcrt, no vcruntime, nothing except core Win32 dlls are allowed on the platform. Static linking can relieve some of this pain, but that bloats the binary. C++ simply does not allow the same level of minimalism that can be achieved by C, and for many these are unimportant details, for me they are deal breakers and this is a core pillar of my architecture.
First of all VC++ isn't the only C++ compiler on Windows, as it isn't like UNIX with the one true compiler original approach, secondly there are ways with the compiler and linker flags.
I have been avoiding C as much as possible since 1992, starting with Turbo C++ for MS-DOS.
Anyway, to each its own, all the best.