Many people are not looking for a "better C++", in the land of C++ it seems "better" means "more features", and some of us are not interested in more features, but in a better selection of fewer useful features.
See Rob Pike's essay on this very topic and the design of Go:
See Rob Pike's essay on this very topic and the design of Go:
http://commandcenter.blogspot.nl/2012/06/less-is-exponential...