The thing is, it&#x27;s quite hard to <i>ban</i> unsafe practice from C++, so long as people (rightly) insist on backwards compatibility. The checkable guidelines sound great if people can be persuaded to use them and make them stick - but people aren&#x27;t necessarily already using those features that exist.<p>C++ isn&#x27;t going to go away any time soon, but it might gradually fade into the background.