Its kind of like the difference between a Toyota Camry and a Ford Mustang. Both cars will get you to where you need to go, but sometimes you want or need the power and control that the manual transmission, 5.0 liter V8 Coyote engine of the Mustang. At other times, you want the ease of use / simplicity / finesse of a Camry.

In my line of work (game development) we switch between the two all the time, depending on what we need for that particular point in code, since C/C++ usually come as a pair with compilers.