These posts have been around ever since I started to learn how to program. When I was a wee little lad, everyone told me that C++ was going the way of the dinosaur and no one would ever need to learn it.

That was 10 years ago. It still hasn't happened. Meanwhile, blog post after blog post is written about how C++ is dying when it simply isn't. Maybe it will happen sometime in the future, but as of yet no language solves the same problems that C++ does. Not D, not Rust, not Go. Every single one of these arguments is colored by the specific problems the author has spent their life solving. If none of those problems benefit from C++, then they will inevitably come to the conclusion that C++ is useless, and then yet another "C++ is dying" or "C++ considered harmful" blogpost is written. Meanwhile, reality doesn't care.