C++'s attempts to modernize usually mean adding features with maintaining backwards compatibility. It's like adding new paint to a bucket of brown paint - thing

C++'s attempts to modernize usually mean adding features with maintaining backwards compatibility. It's like adding new paint to a bucket of brown paint - things never really get better. I think the percent of programmers who can keep the language in their head all the time is very low. There are minefields everywhere. This is sounding a surprising amount like Javascript at this point. Not hating on JS, but it has significantly changed over the years while maintaining backwards compatibility. Looking at a codebase I can pretty much pinpoint when it was written (± 3 years). I shudder at the thought of people who onboarded in JS in the last 2 years coming across a 20-year-old codebase though.