Modern C++ has cross platform threads, filesystem access, etc. Unless you're actually trying to use platform specific technology, there's no need for #ifdefs.

Modern C++ has cross platform threads, filesystem access, etc. Unless you're actually trying to use platform specific technology, there's no need for #ifdefs. For the most part CMake handles the cross platform toolchain issues, so it's just one flag to turn on Release Vs Debug builds, enable LTO, include dependencies etc. Again, it's just platform specific features that require if...endif sections. The complaints I'm seeing here would be the equivalent of me complaining about Rust's garbage collection, the only difference is that Rust broke everyone's code in removing it while C++ managed to keep almost everything since the 1980s still working.