I kind of agree, that is why you tend to see for-and-against comments from my side.
Despite the plus sides, there are lots of incumbents, certain domains are better served by managed languages, and regardless of our wishes C and C++ have 50 years of history.
Even if we stop writing new code in those languages today, Cobol shows us how long we would still need to keep them running anyway.
Microsoft, for example, despite their newly found love with Rust, is full of job ads for C++ developers in green field applications.
Despite the plus sides, there are lots of incumbents, certain domains are better served by managed languages, and regardless of our wishes C and C++ have 50 years of history.
Even if we stop writing new code in those languages today, Cobol shows us how long we would still need to keep them running anyway.
Microsoft, for example, despite their newly found love with Rust, is full of job ads for C++ developers in green field applications.