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For certain types of code, modern C++ is uniquely expressive and powerful despite its many flaws, which is attractive. If you know how to use modern C++ well an

For certain types of code, modern C++ is uniquely expressive and powerful despite its many flaws, which is attractive. If you know how to use modern C++ well and switch to other systems languages, you immediately notice the loss of expressiveness and that some things become much more difficult to do. I don’t like C++ aesthetics but I do like its expressiveness and power (and neither C nor Rust are particularly aesthetic either). The recent versions of C++ are vastly superior to the older versions. While I know there are some people like this, I can’t imagine what people find attractive about legacy C++. It was a terrible language to use until relatively recently. As for C++ build systems, once I started using Meson I never looked back. Meson is actually pretty nice.

dagmx 4y ago
I think you unfortunately talked past both my points. 1. I’m specifically NOT saying that C++ doesn’t have its merits. It does. It’s a very capable language. But that’s different than positive mindshare, and I’d argue very few people genuinely like the language. Most people I encounter or see online seem to fall into apathetic about it, or want it to be simpler like C or more comprehensive about safety like Rust or have a better STD+Build system like rust. 2. Meson is great sure, but that’s why I specifically said PLUS ecosystem. Nothing really compares to cmake right now for the ecosystem and that’s a really big deal.