That's not even the right analogy. I think of it more as a rotary phone dial. It's old and overly complex and poorly designed. It's still in use for legacy reas

That's not even the right analogy. I think of it more as a rotary phone dial. It's old and overly complex and poorly designed. It's still in use for legacy reasons and because you have tons of these "experts" who have invested so much time and pride into it they actually can't really accept the fact that legacy is the only reason why C++ is still here. The problem is the nature of programming makes it so that once a language embeds itself into the infrastructure it's hard to remove or upgrade. Very similar to how most of the front end world is stuck with javascript. JavaScript as ugly as it is, is nowhere near the monstrosity that C++ has become though.