I disagree. The advertising and hype pushing people to use C++ is insane. There are hundreds of magazines that exist solely to absorb the advertising budget of Microsoft (and to a lesser extent Intel). Hundreds of conferences every year. You could be writing code in ML at your startup with no complaints and demonstrable success but as soon as your company gets big enough to send your CEO to an industry conference you’ll be switching to C++. The in–flight magazine will extol the benefits of MSVC, speakers like Matt Godbolt will preach Correct by Construction in C++, etc, etc. By the time he gets back he’s been brainwashed into thinking that C++ is the next best thing.