I personally also dislake C++'s standard library, lack of standard functionality in it and the difficulty of maintaining dependencies and the whole resulting bu

I personally also dislake C++'s standard library, lack of standard functionality in it and the difficulty of maintaining dependencies and the whole resulting build process with crosscompilers. GNU Make was not enough, CMake was not enough, GN is almost rocket science, then there is Meson. And choice of clang or gcc. Chrome/Fuchsia is an example of how complicated it can be. But does it have to be like that? There are definitely good reasons to use C++ or C in some cases (system, low-level, games etc) but C++ is a difficult language and it's not necessary for lot more other cases. Rust is yet another story, solving some problems but making new ones. Go made me enjoy the programming again. And of course, managing modules is a very difficult task so it had to be done somehow and somehow really, really good and I think they delivered the working solution. Various previous attempts were bad for various reasons (Kubernetes can tell you).