The author brings up a great point in that C++ really does have a massive lack of modern development tools. I can envision a lot of the language being fixed up from the tooling angle, eliminating a large part of the repetitive and boilerplate work that bogs the language down the most.

Could anyone point me in the direction of modern C++ development tools or would be interested in beginning a project to create them, possibly through Sublime plugins and a preprocessor? (email in profile) I'm familiar with CDT & Visual Studio, both of which are hardly satisfactory (not to say they don't do some things well.) I've also written some tools to close some gaps that I see in C++, but nothing too intrusive or ambitious yet. These are here: https://github.com/personalcomputer/supermake & https://github.com/personalcomputer/cppinterp