Clickhouse is a Yandex project and at Yandex, they historically use C++ for almost everything, I guess it's part of their culture (probably the founders were C++ programmers?) Their web services such as Yandex Taxi's backend (Uber's equivalent) are also written in C++ which is unusual for webdev nowadays.

s/is a/was a/g

But more interesting, to me, is language adoption and familiarity by region.

I have a bookmarked dev.to article from 2020 that discussed programming language popularity by state - https://dev.to/eduecosystem/what-is-the-most-popular-program...

I'm uncertain if anyone has extrapolated that to more geographic regions. It would be interesting.

And when making those engineering choices there are different tradeoffs and constraints to be considered. The language to use is one of them. So when a Rust (wild guess) fanboy comes without any background context and makes comments like yours is very telling.

You are correct that bug free software does not exist. But choose a “memory safe” language does not prevent that. A seasoned C++ developer knows how to use memory sanitizers and other tools to guarantee the correctness of its code compared to an average Rust developer that just trust the compiler which, guess what, also may have bugs.