I've been programming in c++ for 25 years (15 professionally) and I really don't see any reason to keep using it apart from dealing with legacy codebases.
Most arguments in the article boil down to "c++ has the reputation of X, which is partly true, but you can avoid problems with discipline". Amusingly, this also applies to assembly. This is _exactly_ why I don't want to code in c++ anymore: I don't want the constant cognitive load to remember not to shoot myself in the foot, and I don't want to spend time debugging silly issues when I screw up. I don't want the outdated tooling, compilation model and such.
Incidentally, I've also been coding in Rust for 5 years or so, and I'm always amazed that code that compiles actually works as intended and I can spend time on things that matter.
Going back to c++ makes me feel like a caveman coder, every single time.
Most arguments in the article boil down to "c++ has the reputation of X, which is partly true, but you can avoid problems with discipline". Amusingly, this also applies to assembly. This is _exactly_ why I don't want to code in c++ anymore: I don't want the constant cognitive load to remember not to shoot myself in the foot, and I don't want to spend time debugging silly issues when I screw up. I don't want the outdated tooling, compilation model and such.
Incidentally, I've also been coding in Rust for 5 years or so, and I'm always amazed that code that compiles actually works as intended and I can spend time on things that matter.
Going back to c++ makes me feel like a caveman coder, every single time.