Language adoption Memes

The C++ Committee gets a gold medal for creating the most complex language standard that somehow keeps getting more convoluted with each revision. Meanwhile, the guy celebrating with champagne and screaming at a simple "Hello World" print statement is the perfect representation of C++ developers who've spent 6 hours debugging template metaprogramming only to realize they forgot a semicolon. The bottom panel delivers the killing blow - while other programming languages stand proudly on their podiums, evolving gracefully and gaining adoption, C++ is over there chugging champagne and making a mess, still convinced it's the superior choice despite scaring away new developers faster than a segmentation fault at runtime. And yet... we'll still be wrestling with pointer arithmetic and undefined behavior in 2053. The language that refuses to die gracefully!