%90 of what people do today is import some open source library or package to do the heavy lifting and weave them into an app using a scripting language. It is s

%90 of what people do today is import some open source library or package to do the heavy lifting and weave them into an app using a scripting language. It is sort of the MS Basic approach of the web app world. Nothing wrong with that. C++ is used for a different class of problems that are not the main focus of the industry anymore. I would likely choose something like Rust today but at the time C++'s star was rising there really weren't a lot of other better options.