It's a shame, too, since C++14 is a far cry from 1983's C++ (or whatever version the majority of the segment of the industry which uses C++ is actually using), and the others are similar stories.

One the one hand, I suspect ams6110 was referring more to those things we give names like "pattern," "architecture," and "paradigm," maybe even "stack," "platform," or "library" than to languages. On the other, my suspicion may be wrong, and I'd agree with him about it if it were anyway; so little that's been developed in the world of programming languages recently is anything new, and what isn't is as often as not a poor reimagining of something Lisp or ML had figured out pretty damn well ages ago, thank you very much.

Still, though, progress has been made even on the mainstays, even if the industry hasn't quite caught on yet.