[pdimitar]

Yep, I am in full agreement with your points. Especially this:

> It goes well beyond "any long-lived project has its issues."

I heard this mantra as a justification for bad coding practices likely 500 times.

I appreciate that C++ still drives a lot of our virtual world but that's more a proof of the tenacity of those programs' creators than the virtues of C++ itself. IMO it's time tools like `ripgrep`, `dua` / `ds-cli` (both calculate directory contents' sizes) to become the norm: Rust tools, multicore friendly, insanely fast, and with no quirks and weirdly interacting CLI switches.