Linus wanted attention and C++ was perfect. Later down the road, he even ranted about Java. It's clear he is a hater of OOP and Abstraction in general. Now, Linus Cultists promotes Data Oriented Design.
The attention thing said by Bjarne by himself when asked on Reddit.
This guy wants to write an implant in Rust, but he forgets that Rust is like C, and its very easy RE.
Oh, I do remember we had cool kidz writing implants in Go, C#
What a failure! That's why the NSA and GRU selected Modern C++!
He selected the wrong tool for the job. Take a look at Flawedgrace, it is written in modern C ++ and very complex to RE. It uses OOP heavily.
Rust is a subset of modern C ++
The Rust people have mastered Alexander Stepanov's vision for C ++
Have a look at Alexander Stepanov's Elements of Programming.
This post just a hidden marketing for his "Blackhat" book.
C++ didn't make any mistakes. The language didn't but the developers did.
It's pity that people portray C++ as dead and horrible lang.
The ecosystem of programming languages has become more like the Ponzi Crypto industry, where every night you get shiny cryptocurrency and then charge for consultations and speaking.