I started coding professionally in C++ back around 2000. Many things have improved in C++ such as the items you list above, but C++ remains a viciously complica

I started coding professionally in C++ back around 2000. Many things have improved in C++ such as the items you list above, but C++ remains a viciously complicated language that requires constant vigilance while coding in it, especially when more than one thread is involved. CloudFlare is not lacking in good engineers with tons of both C and C++ experience. They still chose Rust for their replacement of Nginx. Now their crashes are so few and far between, they uncover kernel bugs rather than app-level bugs. https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-that-connects-cloudflare-to-the-internet/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-t... > Since Pingora's inception we’ve served a few hundred trillion requests and have yet to crash due to our service code. I have never heard anything close to that level of reliability from a C or C++ codebase. Never. And I've worked with truly great programmers before on modern C++ projects. C++ may not have limits, but humans writing C++ provably do.