Wow, I am pleasantly surprised to hear that Scott Meyers agrees with me on this. I've read 2 of Meyers books (a long time ago, granted), and recently it occurre

Wow, I am pleasantly surprised to hear that Scott Meyers agrees with me on this. I've read 2 of Meyers books (a long time ago, granted), and recently it occurred to me that the reason C++ needs Scott Meyers is that C++ is such a clusterfuck (edit: my word, not Scott's -- I'm in no way trying to put words in his mouth). In no way is that to take away from Meyers. There'd be no hope without him. (And, as he apparently said in this talk, he agrees with me). This is why I place so much hope in Rust. I want a language that lets me control memory that is not a clusterfuck. C will do, actually. But if Rust can pull off its goals, it will be a home run. (D is in the mix too, but from what I hear, the standard library uses relies on GC so much that it's not practical to do much without GC).