Agree with your assessment of C++. A lot of things have improved in modern C++ over the last 10 years, but C++ has a serious PR problem. Part of this is that it

Agree with your assessment of C++. A lot of things have improved in modern C++ over the last 10 years, but C++ has a serious PR problem. Part of this is that it's been changing pretty quickly and people wonder if they should come up to speed on modern C++ or just learn something new (like Rust or Carbon) and in many cases people just decided to do the latter because coming up to speed on C++20 is basically like learning a new language anyway. Still, the remaining big deficiency that C++ has now over more modern languages like Rust is library management. The C++ standards folks seem to say every couple of years that library management is the next big thing on their schedule for the next C++ release, but it gets delayed until later.