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> the lack of good c++ libraries for common tasks in systems programming (like Sockets, or networking - still experimental after 40+ years!!)
I don't think it's that shocking, is it? In most languages the networking support is basically just the C socket API exposed as well. A good API is a good API, it shouldn't really matter how it's implemented.
Also seems like a massively unfounded leap to go from "the standard library doesn't have it" to "complete lack of good C++ libraries for common tasks". C++ has never been a "batteries included" language. That doesn't mean good libraries don't exist for it. Boost is very common in the C++ world, for example. And that "experimental" networking library is basically just asio but adopted by the standard library, and asio is not experimental or unstable: https://think-async.com/Asio/
> Python for ex. might have C code behind the scenes, however you will interact with the C library in a pythonic way
Kinda odd to use Python as an example when it just exposes C sockets pretty much directly and entirely non-pythonicly https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html
> In contrast, with C++ your program has Hodge podge of high-level constructs like std::vector, string, RAII etc.. and suddenly you are in the void, malloc, free land with your C code. The mental model of lifetime/memory of objects in your program is inconsistent and burdensome. People would rather program everything in C, at least it will be consistent albeit very low level.
Eh? No, people would just make a tiny wrapper around the C APIs and call it a day. It's a pretty odd stance to take to say that to avoid writing ~100 lines of C-style C++, you should instead write 10k lines of C?
Also other than void (which is in C++, too), you shouldn't be encountering malloc or free when calling C functions. That's not how any good C API works, and it's certainly not how the continuously mentioned socket APIs work.