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-cquery is a highly-scalable, low-latency language server for C++. It is tested
+cquery is a highly-scalable, low-latency language server for C/C++. It is tested
 and designed for large code bases like
 [Chromium](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/). cquery provides
 accurate and fast semantic analysis without interrupting workflow.