Comment by bb88

The problem with 45 years of C++ is that different eras used different features. If you have 3 million lines of C++ code written in the 1990's that still compiles and works today, should you use new 202x C++ features?

I still feel the sting of being bit by C++ features from the 1990s that turned out to be footguns.

Honestly, I kinda like the idea of "wrapper" languages. Typescript/Kotlin/Carbon.