Above, you wrote <<velocity>>. Most people would say that C++ has lower velocity than other higher order languages, like C#, Java, Python, Ruby, etc. You also include the term <<experience>> which is a curious combination. In my professional experience, language "experience" dominates most discussions about what langauge to use for a new project. After all, programmers are humans who have biases from their (programming) langauge experience. (Zero trolling on the last sentence!)
Velocity is about familiarity, about expressiveness, about being able to quickly translating what you want to accomplish to code. It’s also about, for me anyway, not being constrained by inherent limits of the language or runtimes. Like I said, checks all the boxes.
As for experience, I have been writing C since the very early nineties and moved on to c++ soon thereafter.
Again, all that is, for the most part anyway, not specific to this language.
