Yes, but the distractions of C are just as inconvenient, though wholly different. The amount of extra low-level work you must do in a C program considerably adds to the time you need to make it work, time that could be spent thinking about more interesting things. I'd rather reach for a C++ vector and just let it manage the memory for me (or unique_ptr or many other easy tools) while I'm crafting my program logic then spend a nontrivial fraction of my time making sure my memory handling is correct.