You are ignoring that every one of that languages you're describing here have not only removed stuff but also implemented stuff differently.
Also, Sun said "manual memory management is dangerous" and history proved them right (granted, they were not the first to say so). Java also proved that a VM based language can be competitive performancewise with a compiled language. It influenced the design of PL down the lines.
Go, well I'm not the biggest fan of its design philosophy but I'm still would have chosen Go over C++ in the 90s if both were available back then.
Rust goes well beyond anything C++ has done. C++ failed in replacing C but Rust might be able to pull that off. Considering that we still have lots of the buffer overflows in 2021 I'd say it's about time.
> C++: has generics, inheritance, pointers, macros, const, function overloading, and exceptions
Pointers. Plural. That's a good point. C++ likes pointers, so much it has raw pointers, references, std::auto_ptr, std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr.
C++ also has a shitton of other functionality without a coherent design. In that regard, even C is better. They also almost never remove anything. That std::auto_ptr is up for removal just shows how bad it was and that it shouldn't have been added in the first place.
Also, Sun said "manual memory management is dangerous" and history proved them right (granted, they were not the first to say so). Java also proved that a VM based language can be competitive performancewise with a compiled language. It influenced the design of PL down the lines.
Go, well I'm not the biggest fan of its design philosophy but I'm still would have chosen Go over C++ in the 90s if both were available back then.
Rust goes well beyond anything C++ has done. C++ failed in replacing C but Rust might be able to pull that off. Considering that we still have lots of the buffer overflows in 2021 I'd say it's about time.
> C++: has generics, inheritance, pointers, macros, const, function overloading, and exceptions
Pointers. Plural. That's a good point. C++ likes pointers, so much it has raw pointers, references, std::auto_ptr, std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr.
C++ also has a shitton of other functionality without a coherent design. In that regard, even C is better. They also almost never remove anything. That std::auto_ptr is up for removal just shows how bad it was and that it shouldn't have been added in the first place.