We need a book with modern best practices like what happened in the Javascript world with "JavaScript: The Good Parts" from which we can glean a clean effective dialect, leading to a new C++ uptake and renaissance similar to what happened in the Javascript world in 2008
"JavaScript: The Good Parts" is outdated and should be no longer recommended. Even when I was first reading this book I had issues with some parts (adding methods to global classes, module pattern)
2008 revival in JS is not because of this book but from node.js, npm, jQuery and browsers becoming more capable. There where other factors like that fact that there is no alternative to JS on client side and HTML was lagging behind before HTML5. Both Java Applets an Flash become abandomware leaving no alternatives.
There is Rust, there should be stronger push towards this language. C++ is like PHP even with heroic efforts cannot be fully fixed. There is too much cruft, arcane syntax, platforms compatibility issues and finally lack module system.
They're not really equivalent, but Scott Meyers' series of books on C++ are some of my favorite technical writing ever, and his most recent book "Effective Modern C++" should be on the shelf of every working C++ programmer.
I agree with this - I finished reading this just before last year and I cannot recommend this book enough. It really is excellent (including topics like reference collapsing, type deduction in different scenarios, idiosyncrasies of async tasks). A great book and essential.
I don't think it will ever happen, at least in the enterprise space.
Companies are quite happy to use more productive, safer, languages like the ones on top of JVM and CLR, with C++'s role being left to infrastructure code.
The OSes and tooling from Apple, Google and Microsoft are good examples of it.
C++ is there on the lower levels, for hardware support, low level graphics, language runtimes but everything else ends up in Objective-C, Swift, Java, VB.NET, C# and F#.
From all those OSes, UWP is the only one where C++ enjoys parity with the remaining languages and apparently isn't that much used.
Even Microsoft does most of their UWP presentations in C# and despite in ongoing work in C++/WinRT as C++/CX, I doubt it will change the situation that much.
"However, no new edition of The C Programming Language has been issued to cover the more recent standards."
The book should be read by every C programmer, but it is really outdated and has many bad practices including buffer overflows etc. in examples. For learning "good parts" it certainly isn't the right thing.
