[silisili]

That's also a problem in C land, of course, perhaps with less total sprawl.

Yeah, it has new features, but you're stuck working on a C89 codebase, good luck!

I don't know a great answer to that. I almost feel like languages should cut and run at some point and become a new thing.

[ahartmetz]

Perhaps less? More like certainly a ton less. Regards, someone who uses C++ and doesn't even hate it.