Full agreement here. My past experience in the bioinformatics field taught me pretty much that "scientists" at large are just as afraid of the terminal as the average person. The science-folks more specialized on informatics typically are folks focusing on being able to use one language. Not use it well, mind you, just able to produce functional, untested code.
Given that, I highly doubt any of them are even aware of languages beyond python and java and maybe they're aware that C and C++ exists but are scary.
Given that, I highly doubt any of them are even aware of languages beyond python and java and maybe they're aware that C and C++ exists but are scary.