That's because doing any kind of tooling for C++ is a heroic endeavour. The language just has orders of magnitudes more corner cases than anything except perl.

That's because doing any kind of tooling for C++ is a heroic endeavour. The language just has orders of magnitudes more corner cases than anything except perl. For example there were some tools Mozilla maintained: Elsa, pork, treehydra etc but (as far as I can quickly find on my phone) it looks like the burden of maintaining them proved too much a while back.