On: Why would you learn C++ in 2016?

[Ace17]

1) Resource management: you never have again to risk forgetting a call to "delete/free".

2) Templates: you don't need to resort to a horrible macro mess to implement a type-safe container.

3) Polymorphism: you don't need to manually manage vtables.

[wmu → Ace17]

I would add namespaces to your list. They're extremely useful to organize entities of a program. No more prefixes to functions and types names.

Also enum classes are pretty useful. Unlike old enums, the labels do not pollute an outer scope.