Comment Re:Welcome (Score 1) 258
Exactly. Also, this isn't a zero sum game where someone or something has to "lose" so someone or something else can "win". Realistically, C++ is going to be around for a very long time and it still has compelling advantages for some types of work, so we might as well invest our efforts in promoting a modern, safer style of C++ for those use cases. There's no need to pretend it's a perfect language with no historical baggage and there's no need to put down other languages that might be better choices now for other types of work. There's also no need to defend or preserve C++ indefinitely. If and when the other choices become strictly better options, it's perfectly OK to let C++ retire to the big legacy code repo in the sky after its many years of valuable service to our industry.