How is it a failure when people just find idiomatic C++ undesirable, exactly because it's very different from C.
Basically, the best C++ feature by a very long mile is that it can in fact be used as an extension of C. That's what made it popular in the first place and that's still "what people want".
If it's a failure, then it's that of the C++ committee evolving the language in an echo chamber.
How is it a failure when people just find idiomatic C++ undesirable, exactly because it's very different from C.
Basically, the best C++ feature by a very long mile is that it can in fact be used as an extension of C. That's what made it popular in the first place and that's still "what people want".
If it's a failure, then it's that of the C++ committee evolving the language in an echo chamber.