> C++11/14 is in practice not that much more difficult to write well than Java. It's not 1998 anymore.

While I agree with you and C++ belongs to my favorite languages, the truth is that most corporations still use C++98/C++03 and they aren't going to improve their compilers any time soon.

On our Java projects we still get requests for Java 1.4.

The enterprise is a very slow moving snail.