The author brings up a great point in that C++ really does have a massive lack of modern development tools. I can envision a lot of the language being fixed up from the tooling angle, eliminating a large part of the repetitive and boilerplate work that bogs the language down the most.
Could anyone point me in the direction of modern C++ development tools or would be interested in beginning a project to create them, possibly through Sublime plugins and a preprocessor? (email in profile) I'm familiar with CDT & Visual Studio, both of which are hardly satisfactory (not to say they don't do some things well.) I've also written some tools to close some gaps that I see in C++, but nothing too intrusive or ambitious yet. These are here: https://github.com/personalcomputer/supermake & https://github.com/personalcomputer/cppinterp
There are also clang-based auto-complete and syntax-checking plugins for sublime, emacs, and presumably others.
Another emacs package I've been meaning to try is "disaster", which shows you the assembly that the code under your cursor compiles to: https://github.com/jart/disaster
What c++ is sorely lacking, in my opinion, is a (library) package management system.
I think clang/LLVM is where the active point of development for a lot of that kind of stuff is. There's been a lot of code-checking/sanitization features that have been added in the last few releases.
The most recent release of clang can even track undefined integer behavior (as recently posted to HN).
Could anyone point me in the direction of modern C++ development tools or would be interested in beginning a project to create them, possibly through Sublime plugins and a preprocessor? (email in profile) I'm familiar with CDT & Visual Studio, both of which are hardly satisfactory (not to say they don't do some things well.) I've also written some tools to close some gaps that I see in C++, but nothing too intrusive or ambitious yet. These are here: https://github.com/personalcomputer/supermake & https://github.com/personalcomputer/cppinterp