Well, yes and no. I don’t mean to single out C++, I actually do appreciate the language, but it is far more difficult to evolve than most languages. For instanc

Well, yes and no. I don’t mean to single out C++, I actually do appreciate the language, but it is far more difficult to evolve than most languages. For instance, languages like Java/.NET/Python/etc have a far more “defined” place in the world of software, and they can optimize their languages around their niche. With C++ you have businesses that don’t really care about performance, but they have 50+ million lines of code they rely on, embedded folks, HPC/GPGPU, graphics/AV, CAD/CAM/CAE, application programmers, and people responsible for providing support for customers for all of those domains. It’s extraordinary difficult to propose anything that doesn’t step on someone’s toes.