C++ has many ugly parts to it, but I wouldn't call sticking with a 14 year old language "great". There's plenty of things that are really damn good, for example

C++ has many ugly parts to it, but I wouldn't call sticking with a 14 year old language "great". There's plenty of things that are really damn good, for example - std::span - std::string_view - std::source_location - if constexpr ...