Yea, I agree. That's a good quote. I also would really like a 'strong agent' to just come along and do a 'new C++' without the cruft, kind of along the lines o

Yea, I agree. That's a good quote. I also would really like a 'strong agent' to just come along and do a 'new C++' without the cruft, kind of along the lines of the 'go' philosophy without necessarily inventing a new language. Maybe Rust is de-facto that. Or maybe D is it and we're not playing close enough attention. I guess your point is further validated by the hot mess of the web as well: javascript is a monster, somewhat tamed by TypeScript ... and I don't think Dart or anything else is poised to replace it.