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Re:Goals and Priorities for C++ by titzer on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:49PM (#23268470)
> Rust, Go, Swift and Kotlin are though[sic] competition, while C++20 is still lacking in agility, safety and modularity.

What is the point of fighting to stay relevant by going after use cases that are being served by these other languages? Is it just to win and have more "mind share"? Is it to make the biggest tribe? That seems like a social goal, not a technical one.

Re:Goals and Priorities for C++ by dodobirdlord on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:56AM (#23268775)
It defends their investment, both in the skills they have built up and the existing code that they have created.