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What is it that the C/C++ development community is catching up to?

(And also, I'm not convinced that programming languages should be treated as having their own isolated developer communities, considering there is often a lot of overlap. Are we talking individual users? Companies? Language designers? Etc.)



Good support for multi-core programming comparable to what java.lang.concurrent, language thread and network async IO offer.

C++11 introduced std::thread, with a couple of issues retified in later revisions, and apparently executors just failed C++20, delaying the introduction of a major part of async networking.

Language safety as well.

For me, in spite of the safety improvements in C++, I see the language being tailored for specific niches and no longer a full stack language, similar to how it is handled on modern desktop and mobile OSes.

And C will never catch up in security.




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