It is complicated, though. Not as complicated as quantum physics, but still far more complicated than it needs to be - especially if you care about multiple arc

It is complicated, though. Not as complicated as quantum physics, but still far more complicated than it needs to be - especially if you care about multiple architectures and platforms. At one point I was making builds for X86, AMD64 and Itanium on Windows, MacOS, Linux (which itself was subdivided into various distributions with different glibc/openssl/whatever versions). It took more work maintaining the build pipeline than working on features. Go and Rust prove you can get most of the benefit of C/C++ without paying that complexity cost.