He was quite right, this is what attracted me to C++ after Turbo Pascal, in spite of disliking C.

I could have the type safety of Turbo Pascal, its scope of language features and spend less time writing my own FFI wrappers to the OS APIs, that were adopting C as their new systems language.

Of course to achieve that safety like level, I still had to write my own wrapper classes, but it was less effort than full blown FFI code in languages that have completely difference concepts.

EDIT: Typo, was -> as