Or Rust, or Go. C++ is like Java, it will pull in features of other languages years after they have been proven to be valuable and useful, not that there is an

Or Rust, or Go. C++ is like Java, it will pull in features of other languages years after they have been proven to be valuable and useful, not that there is anything wrong with that. There is something to be said for a slow moving target that you can kinda rely on to work well. If anything I think C++ went off the rails when they started innovating in the language space and tried to introduce all sorts of novel features that other languages hadn't prototyped. I think of all the nonsense around templates that they introduced and how generally the consensus is not to use any advanced template features.