> But Dave, what we mean by outdated is that other languages have surpassed C++ and provide a better developer experience.

> Matter of personal taste, I guess, C++ is still one of the most widely used programming languages with a huge ecosystem of libraries and tools. It’s used in a wide range of applications, from game development to high-performance computing to embedded systems. Many of the most popular and widely used software applications in the world are written in C++.

> I don’t think C++ is outdated by any stretch of the imagination;

The second paragraph in this quote has zero connection to the first and the third paragraphs.

> C++ has a large ecosystem built over the span of 40 years or so, with a lot of different libraries and tools available.

Yes, exactly: it's outdated.

> the simple rule of thumb is to use the standard library wherever possible; it’s well-maintained and has a lot of useful features.

That's got to be the funniest joke in this whole article. First of all, no, its API is not really that well thought out and it took several language standards to finally make smart pointers and tuples truly convenient to use; and which implementation of "the standard library" do you even mean, by the way? There are several implementations of it, you know, of very varying quality.

And then there is an argument against using the Boost in this article which hilariously can be well applied to C++ itself. Don't use it unless you have to! There are languages that are more modern and easier to use!

> Fact is, if you wanna get into something like systems programming or game development then starting with Python or JavaScript won’t really help you much. You will eventually need to learn C or C++.

The key word is eventually. You don't start learning to e.g. play guitar on a cheap, half-broken piece of wood because you'll spend more time on fighting the instrument and fiddling with it than actually learning how to play it.

> New standards (C++20, C++23) keep modernizing the language, ensuring it stays competitive with younger alternatives. If you peel back the layers of most large-scale systems we rely on daily, you’ll almost always find C++ humming away under the hood.

Notice the dishonesty of placing these two sentences together: it seems to imply (with plausible deniability) that those "large-scale systems we rely on daily" are written in "modern" C++. No, they are absolutely not.