Comment by pjmlp

For me it sufices the little victories achieved by F-Secure, Aicas, PTC, Astrobe.

Fortunately there are enough true believers to keep them in business.

By the way, apparently it is time for Google to improve their gRPC C++ implementation.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/grpc-performance-impro...

As for the mainframe languages, yes they don't have a GC, but they have the right defaults regarding bounds checking, implicit conversions, explicit unsafe code.

Regarding managed runtimes, versus C++, languages like C#, D, Modula-3, Swift have the features to write C++ like code when needed, the main problem is that many don't bother to learn the language features available to them.

At Microsoft stories about hard core C++ devs having to be proven wrong with C# running in front of them is relatively known, Joe Duffy has shared a couple of such stories.

His experience in Singularity and Midori is also what made him bet on Go for Pulumi.