Ask HN: Modern C/C++ tech stack?

I am a professional software engineer who has spent most of his 20-year, post-college career in interpreted languages. As much as I love never having to think about pointers or threads, more and more I bump up against the wall of what's possible in these environments - I only get to use low-level services like graphics and audio or cutting edge solutions like WebRTC if someone kindly wrote and maintained native bindings in my languages of choice.

Enough! It's time to take the plunge!

From my armchair, it looks like I'll need to pick:

* compiler * build system * linter and other tooling * standard libraries

I am all for standing on the shoulders of giants... I want to build non-crappy software that does meaningful things with the best tools.

What pieces should I put together?

FWIW, I'm seeing great threads on learning C++, but don't see a toolchain convo. Feel free to correct me!

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23380537 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252926 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16535886