Modern C++ is safe

Deal with it, faggots. Mobile and server platforms are the future. We need to do more with less hardware. C++11 is efficient--and just as easy to write as other modern languages. C# is the way to go for general purpose desktop application programming.

Enjoy your shitty Lisp, C, Haskell, and generally trying to look hardcore, though.

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C and C++ are not significantly faster than other compiled languages like D, Delphi or Ada

Yes, it is, because there are more mature optimizing compilers for C and C++ than for any of those shitty languages. And C++ is a modern and widely used language. It will be the primary interface to WinRT.