Depends on what people mean by modern. Modern doesn't have to mean recent. Python for all its problems is keeping up to date with lots of modern ideas: optional

Depends on what people mean by modern. Modern doesn't have to mean recent. Python for all its problems is keeping up to date with lots of modern ideas: optional typing, decent packages ecosystem, async support, refreshed format strings, etc. It's a different kind of modern than C++11 aka "default compilers in LTS releases finally support it, so we can set it as the used standard" kind of modern.