The death of c++ in many universities could be blamed a little on the hurdles you have to jump to create something windowed and interactive (what many would con

The death of c++ in many universities could be blamed a little on the hurdles you have to jump to create something windowed and interactive (what many would consider a "program"). I saw that happen at my university between 2000-2010, and in the computer graphics department we just ended up using Processing to teach most concepts. It's in c++'s best interest to have some components whose purpose is to make things easier, especially for newcomers. io2d fills a huge gap there, one that hasn't been filled by any compilers/IDEs in a cross-platform and straightforward way. However, I agree that better c++ package management would have solved this problem, and also eliminated the need for <filesystem> etc. I'm not happy with the specifics of the io2d proposal (50+ colour constants?) but it's a start.