Meh, I used to use C++ about 10 years ago and very much enjoyed it but the lack of multiple, built-in and cross-platform ways of doing things, like networking t

Meh, I used to use C++ about 10 years ago and very much enjoyed it but the lack of multiple, built-in and cross-platform ways of doing things, like networking that higher level languages had I just simply stopped using it. This would give me an excuse to check it out again because, being part of the STL, it would be trivial to include in a project. If I have a reason to use the language I can learn the build tooling (which last time I used C++ they were very, very old and overly complex IMO; nothing easy like rust's). If you want to drive adoption of C++ you need to lower friction to using it. This works in every single thing ever created. If you can get more features into the STL that the vast, vast majority of languages have built in and get good tooling you'll have a very easy way for someone to jump into the language. Alternatively you can continue to keep the friction high and address "language core issues" instead of making the STL have parity with all other popular languages. I think that approach is terrible but only if your goal is to grow the community of developers. But that's just my opinion of someone who loved C++ 10 years ago but had to move to higher level languages just to get stuff done, quickly and efficiently.