I get the feeling that C and C++ are undergoing a mini-renaissance right now. This is a good thing. The high level language / low-level language thing is one o

I get the feeling that C and C++ are undergoing a mini-renaissance right now. This is a good thing. The high level language / low-level language thing is one of the "cycles of reincarnation" in software. I do sometimes wonder... if we spent our time cleaning up the C/C++ ecosystem instead of recoding everything in the newest language of the month, would we get further with that?