It's basically like clockwork - you can assume that any post about c++ language evolution is going to have a number of people saying one or all of the following

It's basically like clockwork - you can assume that any post about c++ language evolution is going to have a number of people saying one or all of the following : 1) "CPP keeps getting complex in useless ways. Just use C (maybe C with classes style)". This viewpoint is correct in the sense that modern CPP is essentially a different language than C++98. But I disagree with the rest incredibly strongly - modern C++ is more expressive, safer, and often more performant than the old-school style. Things like unique_ptr, string_view/spans, RAII, etc are very useful and reduce boilerplate code as well as manage complexity. 2) "CPP is garbage, use Rust instead". I have not personally written in Rust, but I do find it to be a very interesting language. I would consider very strongly writing a new project in Rust. But most C++ projects are not new, and although us nerds always love rewriting perfectly working code, it's a good way to shoot your business in the foot. 3) "The template system is obscene". I mean, this is true. :) I do occasionally sprinkle metaprogramming into my code, because it solves some problems incredibly well. But it is essentially a different language grafted on at compile time. if constexpr, concepts, etc help enormously with this problem. And yes, those have all been introduced very recently...