The effort required for this makes it not worth it.
If I want a library in python it takes about a second to install with one command, and these libraries tend to be safe so you're not going to get any resistance if you want to try out 10 libraries in the next hour or so, which is sort of impossible with c++. Also these libraries are easily uninstalled and isolated from other python apps you have. No need to use massively complex package managers like nix to handle isolation.
Fuzzing a library just isn't something that's done in python. The developer just installs it and manually tests it 5 or 6 times in a shell and it's part of the ecosystem in 5 minutes.
If you accidentally leave unused libraries in your code and it gets pushed to prod it's a non-issue.
I switched to c++ because I was ok with the verbosity and also the complexity and also dealing with memory. But literally every single corner of the c++ ecosystem is a pain in the ass to work with. It's getting to the point where I'm just annoyed all the time. If you want high performance apps go with rust or golang. C++ is just not worth it.
For a C++ dev moving to python is like night and day. Imagine a programming environment where you only have to deal with the intention of what your app should do and not all the yak shaving that comes with it on the side. I know some and they tell me they would never go back to c++.
You would use C++ for a service or very focused component that does one thing well (like a database, or crunching numbers). For those, even Rust is not always a good answer.
You shouldn't use C++ as the backend for your marketing site, or some simple crud backend where a JIT runtime with GC will do.
Hell, if you're even building a small compiler today a JVM language or Go is a better choice.
But if you need to allocate memory yourself, C/C++ is very hard to beat. Games and systems dealing with huge chunks of memory will always go this route... and just (most likely) copy the dependencies into version control and deal with things that way.
It doesn't matter if the majority of applications are web applications. That doesn't make C++ less relevant because that was never the target audience.
If I want a library in python it takes about a second to install with one command, and these libraries tend to be safe so you're not going to get any resistance if you want to try out 10 libraries in the next hour or so, which is sort of impossible with c++. Also these libraries are easily uninstalled and isolated from other python apps you have. No need to use massively complex package managers like nix to handle isolation.
Fuzzing a library just isn't something that's done in python. The developer just installs it and manually tests it 5 or 6 times in a shell and it's part of the ecosystem in 5 minutes.
If you accidentally leave unused libraries in your code and it gets pushed to prod it's a non-issue.
I switched to c++ because I was ok with the verbosity and also the complexity and also dealing with memory. But literally every single corner of the c++ ecosystem is a pain in the ass to work with. It's getting to the point where I'm just annoyed all the time. If you want high performance apps go with rust or golang. C++ is just not worth it.
For a C++ dev moving to python is like night and day. Imagine a programming environment where you only have to deal with the intention of what your app should do and not all the yak shaving that comes with it on the side. I know some and they tell me they would never go back to c++.