This. Completely. Or just quit and start your own company. Life to way too short to spend it all working for someone. I'm checking out at age 53 next year, and people look at me like I'm from another planet for not wanting to work into my 70s. Fuck that.

There are a zillion thread classes for C++, I've written three myself. Just pick one and go with it, or just use pthreads directly, if you want/need to use C++. You don't have to wait for the next standard. Java's threads suck for a lot of things, particularly if you need lightweight threads. If you're using Mac OS X, the Cocoa NSThread class rocks, it's fast and easy. I don't really get what the big deal is here. People have been writing multithreaded code for a couple of decades.