The C/C++ engineers are going to spend their time dealing with memory management issues that have no relevance to the final delivery of product features. And i

The C/C++ engineers are going to spend their time dealing with memory management issues that have no relevance to the final delivery of product features. And if industry experience says somethings, those engineers who spent that time honing their skills at wrangling the C++ stdlib will have _appalingly_ bad design and UI skills, which are very relevant for today's web and are a much more important driver of revenue.