[interestingcpp]

Why would you care? Well the complexity makes tooling difficult, the engineers expensive, and arguably ongoing development could be slower depending on how many c++ features they have to deal with in one code unit. Are these any strikes against the language itself? No, of course not, but one can see why e.g. using go instead might afford more flexibility if the underlying c++ distinguishing features aren’t necessary. The language complexity is still something to consider even if c++ is sufficient.

I am by no means arguing that C++ committees are making any mistakes.

[mattnewport]

I don't think we disagree on much. Jonathan Blow is of the opinion that what games programmers need is a new language designed from scratch, in part because he believes the most viable (and dominant) language used for games, C++, is irredeemably complex. I recognize that there are complexities to C++ but I'm of the opinion that it's been getting better and will continue to do so for games development and that the new features in practice are making the language simpler to use even if technically they are making it "more complex" in the sense of having more features. The tooling is also getting better, despite the complexity, and Clang has played a big part in that. The case for switching to a different language is not compelling to me, especially to a completely new language rather than something with some track record.