I am with you.

As managed languages dev, I seldom use C++, but when I do it is the best system language currently available regarding tooling, libraries and hardware support (NVidia now makes GPGPU optimized for C++ semantics).

For app development, there aren't many scenarios where C++ is really necessary, whereas for systems it is going to stay around for years to come.

So anything that helps improving the quality of GCC, LLVM, CUDA, UWP, Metal Shaders, DirectX, Unreal/Unity/CryEngine/Cocos/Godot is more than welcome.

For anything else, we can just follow Microsoft's security suggestions as presented at Blue Hat IL, namely C# (replace by favourite managed language), Rust and modern C++.

https://github.com/Microsoft/MSRC-Security-Research/blob/mas...