C++ has namespaces, C does not. That one singular feature makes C++ worthy of being used over C.

What class hierarchy?

Even demo scene people use C++ and windows binaries can start at 1KB. Classes, operator overloading and destructors are all still useful. There is no reason there has to be more overhead than C.

Right, they also tend to use special tools to crunch their binaries down to acceptable size, afaik.

That said, that's a very good point. Maybe they'd even use that fmt library?

What point are you even trying to make now? Every time you've been wrong about something and corrected you don't acknowledge it and just move on to something barely related.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

You said this:

I'm pretty sure you wouldn't use C++ in that situation anyway, so I don't really see your point.

People have pointed out to you why you both can and would use C++, especially in place of C.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will try to remember that

Let me coin a new term to help me in that task: the "swarm gallop", which would be that technique applied by a group of people, instead of just one person (somewhat like a DDOS).

Thank you.