They've dug themselves into a hole when it comes to C++.
If you started writing a major project in C now you'd rightfully get sacked, but open source projects like this are often dominated by the opinions of those who only work on that project. That doesn't mean they're automatically wrong but just that they're often massively detached from any feedback apart from disaster.
If you started writing a major project in C now you'd rightfully get sacked, but open source projects like this are often dominated by the opinions of those who only work on that project. That doesn't mean they're automatically wrong but just that they're often massively detached from any feedback apart from disaster.