“Governments are telling you to stop using C++”.

This invokes the imagery of a 1950s Apollo era scientist saying something serious. But I promise you there is no visionary low level language authority in the background. It’s just a staffer being influenced by the circle of blogs prominent on programming Reddit and twitter.

> no overhead principle

It’s actually nice to hear they are asserting a more conservative outlook and have some guiding design principle.

Bjarne is more of a super-bureaucrat than a designer. In the early days he pulled C++ into whatever language movements were popular. For a while it looked like Rust was having that influence.

But the outcome has been a refinement of C++ library safety features which are moderate and easy to adopt.