I really don’t understand the industry fixation with C++. It has to be one of the WORST (as in “error prone death trap”) computer languages ever devised. God how I wish it would fade away into obscurity.
If half the effort wasted on C++ compilers and usage learning had been spent on something worthwhile...
"There are languages people complain about, and languages nobody use." - Bjarne Stroutup.
I don't think C++ will fade away as it's already a well installed language, and it is getting several upgrades, which are supported by big companies.
There is really nothing comparable to C++ in terms of language, to be really honest. There really are no language which are as readable and flexible as C, AND extensible and high level.
I tried to get interested to statically compiled language like rust, go, D, and honestly I can't get used to them. Safety is not really a good idea because putting barriers between the compiler and the programmer will always result in pain. C++ is the ease of C with some syntactic sugar for more convenient use. I see nothing that can be as good as C in term of down-to-earth syntax.
A good language is not a language that is well designed, a good language is a language everyone can use. C++ to me seems to be the least worse, except of course the toolchain.
If half the effort wasted on C++ compilers and usage learning had been spent on something worthwhile...