Sadly agree. I used to know something that was called C++ (or at least parts of it) and even used to get paid to program in it. But now that C++ has become this

Sadly agree. I used to know something that was called C++ (or at least parts of it) and even used to get paid to program in it. But now that C++ has become this kind of constantly morphing target (see the discussion here about what the most modern way to display text to stdout is) it's just tough to get my arms around it anymore. It seems like there was a noble attempt to modernize C++ and certainly there are some welcome parts of that, but it's gotten so far out of hand now. At some point you just have to admit defeat and start over from scratch with something that has a more unified vision. I'm looking at Zig and Carbon for lowlevel stuff and Julia for mathy stuff now.