You can still do all those things in modern C++ in addition to all the stuff that get added every 4 years. The only thing that has improved dramatically is the

You can still do all those things in modern C++ in addition to all the stuff that get added every 4 years. The only thing that has improved dramatically is the tooling: compilers, static/dynamic analyzers. > And, as I said before, every C++ programmer feels bound by some mystic promise to use every damn element of the language on every project.