[bjwbell]

Perhaps I should have said it's easier to write tooling. C++ has arguably very good tooling but creating it was difficult.

For Rust and Go the example I'm thinking of is rustfmt and gofmt.

[kibwen]

Writing tooling for C++ is difficult because of how entangled all the language's features are (and its wonky grammar certainly doesn't help). In addition C++'s type system is probably even weaker than Go's, having inherited a lot of slop from C.

That said, if you're talking about source code formatters, I'm pretty sure that clang-format predates gofmt (and surely clang-format was not the first automatic source code formatter for C++). The coup for Go was that they got the community at large to standardize upon and champion gofmt, which is not something that C++ has ever matched.

[bjwbell]

I'm thinking more of difficulty in writing rustfmt compared to gofmt. There's other examples like go-oracle or goimports which as far as I know don't have Rust equivalents.

How useful the extra tooling is, I don't really know.