Using C++ while keeping people on a common subset of C++ features is very hard in practice. Google for example do a pretty extreme amount of restrictive code st

Using C++ while keeping people on a common subset of C++ features is very hard in practice. Google for example do a pretty extreme amount of restrictive code standard, training, linting and reinventing libraries to that end. A lot of the motivation behind inventing golang seems to be to remove C++ toys, because it's too hard to get people to not use them if they're there.