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> Between the two requirements, I think Java, C#, and TypeScript might be the only languages that qualify.

says jtolmar in a browser written in C++

Although C++ is statically typed, all of the article's arguments in favor of static typing equally apply against C++.

Also, the way you phrased your comment is needlessly rude, to the point I almost didn't bother replying. If you actually want to learn why people have the opinions they do, you should consider being more polite.

“ the language is actually appropriate in a wide variety of situations, and has libraries to back it up in all of those”

..yes ? if you can write a whole KDE (https://kde.org/) in C++ what is it not appropriate for and what libraries is it lacking

Are there any good full-featured C++ web frameworks? Comparable with Rails, Django, Spring, .net, etc?

Drogon (https://github.com/an-tao/drogon), Cutelyst (https://github.com/cutelyst/cutelyst/), Crow (https://github.com/CrowCpp/crow) come to mind

There is a very real distinction between high and low level languages. And C++ is a nice low level language, but you wouldn’t write a CRUD app in it that changes requirements multiple times a week, because it is simply non-trivial to refactor, due to low level details leaking.

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