Too bad it's a mirage. No, really. "Modern C++" doesn't exist outside of blog posts, books, and tutorials.
Real-world C++ is an array of sometimes mututally-exclusive dialects, patterns, rules, sub-dialects.
Reading MFC is nothing like reading Qt which is nothing like WxWidgets which is nothing like Boost which is something (but not quite like) the STL which is way different from Apache C++ libs which is way different from what Google's C++ libraries are...
This is what happens when a language is "un-opinionated", throws everything including the kitchen sink at the language, tries to compile C and legacy C++ while introducing new features oh and also can't break existing code.
It's on its way out, no doubt about it. And we'll be better off as an industry for it, I'm sure of it.
Rust, Go, and others will be there to fill in the gap in a much better, saner, safer, maintainable way.
Real-world C++ is an array of sometimes mututally-exclusive dialects, patterns, rules, sub-dialects.
Reading MFC is nothing like reading Qt which is nothing like WxWidgets which is nothing like Boost which is something (but not quite like) the STL which is way different from Apache C++ libs which is way different from what Google's C++ libraries are...
This is what happens when a language is "un-opinionated", throws everything including the kitchen sink at the language, tries to compile C and legacy C++ while introducing new features oh and also can't break existing code.
It's on its way out, no doubt about it. And we'll be better off as an industry for it, I'm sure of it.
Rust, Go, and others will be there to fill in the gap in a much better, saner, safer, maintainable way.