I agree with everything written here - C++ is never going to be Rust, or any other language, but it can at least become better than it is now, in some common-se

I agree with everything written here - C++ is never going to be Rust, or any other language, but it can at least become better than it is now, in some common-sense ways. In my view, C++'s biggest problem is its design-by-committee structure, leading to a lack of pragmatism - in other words, perfect is the enemy of good. Pragmatism is what you see when you look at the standard libraries of languages like Python and Java: are they perfect? Far from it. But they prioritize being at least good enough for a good amount of situations, over being perfect. Which ends up being far more useful for regular people. And being useful for regular people is what makes a programming language successful. But design by committee means if your proposal isn't perfect, it will get shot down. So the language remains bad for everyone's use cases, rather than at least becoming somewhat good for some people's use cases.