In my opinion there are two C++'s: 1) the version used by people writing things like the STL/Boost 2) the version used by people writing apps. A huge amount

In my opinion there are two C++'s: 1) the version used by people writing things like the STL/Boost 2) the version used by people writing apps. A huge amount of the updates to the language are to make the lives of people in category 1 easier. The people who fall into category 2 really don't need to use all the template headachery that the language allows. They can if they want, but they probably don't have to. I've noticed that the Boost people are now deprecating old versions of C++. I look forward to hopefully quicker build times. To be fair, the Boost codebase is a masterpiece of working around decades of C++ versions and compiler bugs/missing features. Obviously that makes the code largely incomprehensible to newcomers.