The amount of iconoclastic knee jerking in this thread is kinda nuts. Equating this rebuttal to an old man yelling at clouds? Saying Cpp never made sense?
The first step to solving a problem is accepting reality. Cpp has been foundational, like C, to our computing world. If the rich legacy of libraries that underpin our "better" language choices is offensive to us, or if we really believe we are powerless to improve the situation around the most popular programming language(s) then we're not being realistic.
This is a huge debate of national importance and it'll shape programming language design for decades, it's important to get this right, and that will take more than just once choice and more than one approach to get right.
The first step to solving a problem is accepting reality. Cpp has been foundational, like C, to our computing world. If the rich legacy of libraries that underpin our "better" language choices is offensive to us, or if we really believe we are powerless to improve the situation around the most popular programming language(s) then we're not being realistic.
This is a huge debate of national importance and it'll shape programming language design for decades, it's important to get this right, and that will take more than just once choice and more than one approach to get right.