@Migueldeicaza He kind of missed me first thing out the gate by omitting a fifth key attribute of successor languages: package management. This isn’t even new; Python, Ruby, and Perl have had this for decades (CPAN turns 30 this year!), and they’re core to Rust and Go. Integrating C++ libraries remains a time-consuming and error-prone ritual, and keeping up to date is a huge point of friction. I dread nothing more about going back to C++ than external dependencies.