100% this. It's still absurd to me how codebases in some industries are still basically C++98 and haven't even begun to transition to at least C++17 (which forces new code that adds or changes features to be written C++98-style as well).

Hard to imagine those companies switching to a different language anytime soon. Maybe the new US government push towards "memory safe" languages will help with that.

>Maybe the new US government push towards "memory safe" languages will help with that.

That could be a whole new year 2000 thing. It would get the programming world out of the doldrums it seems to be in at the moment.