anlq100

It has nothing to do with C style coding. The worst offenders are the latest and greatest features, as described brilliantly in this very thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290030

I would argue that the closer you stay to C while using the good features of C++, the safer the code is.

And obviously well written and debugged C code is nearly always more robust than C++ code. But for ideological reasons most people here are unable to acknowledge that, perhaps because they cannot do it.