“Governments are telling you to stop using C++”. This invokes the imagery of a 1950s Apollo era scientist saying something serious. But I promise you there is

“Governments are telling you to stop using C++”. This invokes the imagery of a 1950s Apollo era scientist saying something serious. But I promise you there is no visionary low level language authority in the background. It’s just a staffer being influenced by the circle of blogs prominent on programming Reddit and twitter. > no overhead principle It’s actually nice to hear they are asserting a more conservative outlook and have some guiding design principle. Bjarne is more of a super-bureaucrat than a designer. In the early days he pulled C++ into whatever language movements were popular. For a while it looked like Rust was having that influence. But the outcome has been a refinement of C++ library safety features which are moderate and easy to adopt.