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hacking tools are more than likely going to be coded in c++ rather than c, due to the winapi. however, if the tools are focues on unix, c might be a better solution.

There's A LOT more stuff that can be written in C other than Unix, lol. Unix isn't the only OS that was written in C, or at least had something to do with it. There's a lot of stuff on Windows that was written in C and then there's Linux, which was almost entirely written in C. In fact, there was a point in time where pretty much everything was written in C, lol.

while all of that is true it doesn't negate the fact that it's much easier to write keyloggers with c++ than it is with c. It's much easier to use the WinAPI with c++ than it is with c.

Even though what you're saying is also true, there's only a few things that are more simple to be written in C++. I think you're aware, but C++ is obviously a lot more of an advanced language than C, since C++ is pretty much C, but far more advanced. I mean, C++ only exists because of C anyways, since C is what C++ started to be developed with in the beginning. In comparison of the two, C is actually the one that should be the more simple language, which is why that's what C is mainly used for nowadays (simplicity/minimalism).