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When to use C over C++, and C++ over C?

Many times I've stumbled upon people saying that C++ is not always better than C.

Great example here would be the Linux kernel, where they simply decided to use C instead of C++ because it had better compilers at the time.

But that's many years ago and a lot has changed.

So the question is, why are people still using C over C++? I gues there are probably some cases (like embedded devices), where there simply isn't a good C++ compiler, or am I wrong here? What are the other cases when it is better to go with C instead of C++?