THe issue with C++ is that progressive generations of totally new truckloads of features don't auto-port legacy code forward. So "idiomatic C++" is a hilarious

THe issue with C++ is that progressive generations of totally new truckloads of features don't auto-port legacy code forward. So "idiomatic C++" is a hilarious moving target, and the body of code (one of C++'s advantages) is a hodgepodge of idioms, feature usage, interfaces, etc. That said, C++ is what it is, and it is kind of proud of it, so I say to C++, keep C++ing.