I am actually. Check out this 8 years old blog post (a couple months before I started zig): http://genesisdaw.org/post/progress-so-far.html

In particular:

> So I wanted templates from C++. And atomics from C++11. But that's about it. Other than that, I want to code like I'm in C. The beauty of C-style coding is that the control flow is so simple, it's impossible to not know what code is doing. Contrast that with fancy C++ stuff and you never know what's going to happen or what each line of code is going to do.

> I figured out how to have my cake and eat it too. I discovered that you can compile with g++ and link with gcc, like so:

    g++ -nodefaultlibs -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -std=c++11 -c main.cpp -o main.o
    gcc -o main main.o

> As long as you don't use anything from the C++ standard library, you end up with working code that was compiled with the C++ compiler and does not depend on libstdc++.

> With clang it's even easier, just don't put -lstdc++ on the linker line.