A discussion around Herb Sutter’s piece on the rift between C++’s creator and its stewards highlights growing doubts about C++’s future, with commenters citing memory safety, AI-assisted rewrites, and weak safe-concurrency support as reasons legacy C++ may be increasingly hard to defend. Others credit Sutter and the C++ committee for foundational work on concurrency and memory models, while debating whether those efforts made parallel programming meaningfully easier.