Judging by ballooning attendance at rapidly multiplying C++ conferences, the number of C++ programmers is growing faster than ever. More C++ programmers are newly hired, in any given week, than the total at work using Rust. That will be true for some time to come.

Here on HN you can always get upvotes by promoting Rust (and it really is the only interesting new systems language in 30 years) or complaining about C++, but C++ is going nowhere but upwards. C++20 is better than '17, and C++23 will be better than '20.

A language has achieved something when there are more articles complaining about it than about having succeeded in coding something using it.