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While C++ is undoubtedly complex, keeping up with Python, Java or .NET world, in terms of language features, runtime changes, standard library, alternative implementations and key libraries on the ecosystem is not much easier.

Nowadays I get the feeling to need some kind of memory dump reload everytime I switch projects.

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Well, yes and no. I don’t mean to single out C++, I actually do appreciate the language, but it is far more difficult to evolve than most languages. For instance, languages like Java/.NET/Python/etc have a far more “defined” place in the world of software, and they can optimize their languages around their niche. With C++ you have businesses that don’t really care about performance, but they have 50+ million lines of code they rely on, embedded folks, HPC/GPGPU, graphics/AV, CAD/CAM/CAE, application programmers, and people responsible for providing support for customers for all of those domains. It’s extraordinary difficult to propose anything that doesn’t step on someone’s toes.

Sure, yet the complexity depth is quite similar, regarding the amount of ecosytem and programming stack knowledge that doesn't fit on the brain, after 30 years of programming language history.

Honestly? Well written C++, IMO, should look like C, but with alien builtins from the future. Once C++ gets really good ad hoc memory & resource tracking, you still have the harder problem that resource acquisition is a performance suck — which is true with any language from machine code to MetaOCaml.

What a waste, than just stick with C.

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