I am C++ developer by career and I am pretty much bashing the language all the time. To preserve my sanity I like to use C in after-hours. However looking up C+

I am C++ developer by career and I am pretty much bashing the language all the time. To preserve my sanity I like to use C in after-hours. However looking up C++20 and the direction whole language is going I see there are things I would really like to see in C, while preserving C simplicity. Standardized attributes like [[fallthrough]] and others for functions seem nice. Anonymous functions are nice. They look a bit ugly, but function pointers already look even worse. It would not hurt to have modules and consteval functions in C, but then one still needs templates to really ditch the preprocessor and that's a tough one to solve. Having said all that C++ is really in a need of a clean cut between legacy features and the blessed way. Backwards compatibility is a noble cause, but there is also the whole weight it pulls around. Maybe something like [[deprecated]] attribute could be extended to handle more cases. Maybe C++ needs it's own "unsafe" block, something like [[unsafe]] { *((void*)0) = 0xDEAD; } Essentially having an ability to clearly mark all those different styles of different versions of C++ really. So that compiler could help you to control it and in case of a green field project totally guide you to use only the most modern idioms with an escape hatch. Of course the problem is that to help with the complexity more complexity would have to be added. I am a bit on the crossroads. From one side I start to see, that there is some hope for C++. But on the other I feel like running away, especially since I'm looking for a job. In no particular order: C, Rust, Java, Kotlin, Scheme, Julia, Go, OCaml, Free Pascal, Swift, TypeScript, Lua/Terra, Zig. I had a funny thing with C++. One project I worked on was used in the debug version all the time, to be able to drop to debugger when needed. At that point I started to wonder why not just use Java already, instead of trying to do a manual Java and fail at it.