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My guess is the maintainers of C++ keep making it more and more awful in an attempt to force people to more sane languages.

But to their dismay the crazier it gets, the more some people dig in and embrace it even more.

/sarcasm. I think.

It's not sarcasm. The maintainers have completely lost the plot.

Even Herb Sutter agrees(I think, in his heart, even if he doesn't come out directly and say it), which is why he is working on cppfront