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Should a modern language support member access operators? Probably not, honestly. Is it really impressive that Carbon found an abstraction to support it that n

• rvense 2y ago
  Now, that I won't argue with at all! There are some big-brained people that will find ways forward for various users of C++: some will migrate, some will create impressive tooling, and some, likely will evolve the language as it is - in the grand scheme of things, C++98 becoming an ambiguous term isn't too far off. These are all economic necessities based on just how much C++ has been deposited in the world over the past 35 years. But I also can't help but feel like maybe the big-brainedness required for all this machinery around the language is of sort of the same stock that created the complexity which made the machinery necessary in the first place? Is this a cultural issue? Is the biggest problem in computer science actually that we have too many smart people?