I don't think languages need to promote a consistent culture necessarily. They're tools, nobody's gonna tell you that a flat-head screwdriver is only there for screwing in flat-head screws.
The problem with C++ is that nobody agrees on what subset to use and how. It's a cultural thing. C++ on one project doesn't translate to others necessarily. The language itself did a terrible job of promoting a consistent culture.
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They don't *need* to, but if you're the oddball screwing in Philips-head screws with flat-head screwdrivers all the time, everyone's going to look at you funny (and keep you far away from their screws).
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So true. I use my own tiny subset for embedded use. Static memory allocation, no exceptions, but types for safety, templates for compile-time optimization of high-level type-safe code, lambdas for state machines. Still too limited tho. Can't make custom first class types.
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