>"C++ can do these things, and can do them quite performantly - but it takes an amount of effort far exceeding doing the same thing in say, Go or Java." Not my

>"C++ can do these things, and can do them quite performantly - but it takes an amount of effort far exceeding doing the same thing in say, Go or Java." Not my observation, writing business servers in modern C++ using some libraries is a piece of cake. I do not have any problems with I/O and strings either.