Honestly? Well written C++, IMO, should look like C, but with alien builtins from the future. Once C++ gets really good ad hoc memory & resource tracking, you s

Honestly? Well written C++, IMO, should look like C, but with alien builtins from the future. Once C++ gets really good ad hoc memory & resource tracking, you still have the harder problem that resource acquisition is a performance suck — which is true with any language from machine code to MetaOCaml.