I'm a bit late to the discussion, but worth mentioning here is that C++ has grown as a language on GitHub for the past 8 years: https://madnight.github.io/gith

I'm a bit late to the discussion, but worth mentioning here is that C++ has grown as a language on GitHub for the past 8 years: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2020/3 https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2020/3 I think it's mainly due to the introduction of C++11, C++14 and C++17, which _has_ rejuvenated the language, despite the criticism. Discussions like this one tend to be sort of skewed, because opponents of an old technology, like C++, tend to be more vocal in their opinions. Likewise, proponents of a new technology, like Rust, also tend to be more vocal. It becomes sort of noisy. Behind the noise, though, I think the fact remains that C++ is still very solid, and probably even more so than it was just a few years ago.