I politely disagree. None of the programming languages which started integrating Unicode was targeting from bare metal to GUI, incl. embedded and OS development at the same time.
C++ has a great target area when compared to other programming languages. There are widely used libraries which compile correctly on PDP-11s, even if they are updated constantly.
You can't just say "I'll be just making everything Unicode aware, backwards compatibility be damned, eh".
I politely disagree. None of the programming languages which started integrating Unicode was targeting from bare metal to GUI, incl. embedded and OS development at the same time.
C++ has a great target area when compared to other programming languages. There are widely used libraries which compile correctly on PDP-11s, even if they are updated constantly.
You can't just say "I'll be just making everything Unicode aware, backwards compatibility be damned, eh".