Jeez, read the article. C++20 has such an elegant solution that it has him swooning.
Being truly luxurious, the tz library supports using not just your operating system’s time zone databases, which might lack crucial leap second detail, but can also source the IANA tzdb directly. This allows you to faithfully calculate the actual duration of a plane flight in 1978 that not only passed through a DST change, but also an actual leap second. I don’t swoon easily, but I’m swooning.
That makes no sense in this context. What's the situation you're imagining where they wanted to use C but something else prevented them so they made up an excuse to call C bad?
You know sometimes people just dislike things, right?