While I agree with the underlying point, I doubt that the statement “This leaves C++ being useful mostly for legacy codebases” is true. I see new projects start

While I agree with the underlying point, I doubt that the statement “This leaves C++ being useful mostly for legacy codebases” is true. I see new projects started in C++ all the time in my industry ( automotive video essentially ). In the Open Source world, I see it a lot too. SerenityOS comes to mind. You can hardly call that a legacy code base. In Microsoft land, C++ still seems like the go-to language everywhere outside of .NET with new APIs still being created. There is some interest in Rust but it still seems early and it is not at all obvious that Rust will push C++ aside ( though I would love it to ).