That's why they created Go, to get rid of Java and C++ for things like download.google.com

They are not scalable for Google scale and are not maintainable at google scale.

That's why Google C++ guidelines basically disallow everything that is problematic in C++ and enforce a style guide to

> Avoid surprising or dangerous constructs. C++ has features that are more surprising or dangerous than one might think at a glance

> Avoid constructs that our average C++ programmer would find tricky or hard to maintain. C++ has features that may not be generally appropriate because of the complexity they introduce to the code

> Be mindful of our scale. With a codebase of 100+ million lines and thousands of engineers, some mistakes and simplifications for one engineer can become costly for many.