Tooling was the reason I left C++. Having to do your own package management and script your own build system was deeply dull work. The IDE story was also pretty miserable, although I think clangd has improved it a bit. Getting decent information out of core dumps also sucked a lot. The language actually didn’t bother me too much after c++11, but everything else was such a bear that I jumped ship.

Rust has been very rewarding in that it largely fixes all of C++’s tooling and language problems. It very much is a significantly improved C++.