Gonna date myself but, for ~80% of configuration needs good old INI never let me down. Named sections of name value pairs with string and number data types (maybe bools too. do not recall). et voilà!
Agree. Modern C++, and discussions around it, become more esoteric with every revision. As software engineers we should spend our time understanding the esoterica of the problem domain, not the toolset.
There is also the internationally recognized and ISO standardized, unit of the Yahtzee (symbol Y!), which is any five digit number between 11,111 and 66,666 (inclusive) comprised of the same digits.
Such a promising introduction about the importance of agency, and then "blah blah kids these days blah uphill in the snow blah". "A reawakening of meaningful work"? Come on. Tell that to the child coal miner or factory worker of Carnegie's era.
We need to consider that some things are a public good that must be paid for as such, not as merely a commodity. Public broadcasting is the model that works best and achieves the correct balance between public good and market forces.It can be neither entirely one (state controlled media) nor the other (click bait drivel).