A profoundly idiotic statement, but on-brand for that manifesto.

I love how it ignores that C++ was developed on the same place, even on the same corridor as C and UNIX devs used to work.

And yet ... the C developers were never impressed by C++, and (for instance) Plan9 ended using a differently enhanced version of C, and never (I think?) had a C++ compiler.

The same developers that came up with Limbo and Go, somehow there is a common trend on how they see language design and the alternatives.

YMMV but Go is one of the most divisive tech out there for me.

I like C++ and Rust. If I meet a dev who likes Go, I can guarantee we won't agree on much.

If a language helps a developer create a solution, it is fundamentally not a cancer.

> As "Unix haters handbook" says

As they compile their C code using a compiler written in C++. (GCC and Clang are both written in C++).

To be fair, that wasn't true when the Unix haters handbook was written, almost 30 years ago.

Nonetheless it was true that C++, C and UNIX share the same birthplace.