> Some languages do better than others at saying no, and those languages tend to be the ones that achieve widespread adoption.
Unfortunately that’s not at all true - Go is a real outlier here. If it were true, we’d all be writing C instead of C++, Lua instead of Python and ES5 instead of TypeScript.
FWIW I switched from C++ to C about 7 years ago and never looked back (can't quite escape C++ completely though because some important libraries are still written in C++ unfortunately). I vastly prefer TS to JS, Python and Lua though.
> I switched from C++ to C about 7 years ago and never looked back
I'm definitely considering the same, and you're right - it's not C++ itself that appeals to me at all, it's the libraries. I'm not sure what C libraries I'd use for collections (instead of the STL and Abseil [0]), or in lieu of CLI11 [1] or Dear ImGui [2].
