For me a lot comes down to the tooling. * How do I start a new project * How do I build/test/cross compile the project * How do I add dependencies and option

For me a lot comes down to the tooling. * How do I start a new project * How do I build/test/cross compile the project * How do I add dependencies and optionally vendor them If someone could 'reboot' c++ so it ships a decent standard library and update the tooling to work something like go or rust I'd be interested. One of the projects I've been working on in go parses some csv files, stores the data in a sql database and presents a simple http json rest api. Could I write this in c++? yes. Do I know how to do all the bullshit needed to get a c++ project going that includes csv+sql+json+http libraries? no.