Why use C++ in this day and age?

Recently, C++11 information was released. I do not really understand what is going on this time. Is Microsoft back to supporting C++ programmers? Why use C++ when writing in C# or Java or other languages can be so much faster, safe, and require less lines of codes? Yes, C++ can be faster in cases, but computers are getting a lot faster. Plus, the standard libraries of C++ are somewhat lacking.

C++ is going the way of C.

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You talk as one who has no actual experience with multicore but like to run-off at the mouth.

Have you ever tried to make a video game work on multiple CPUs when you don't have shared memory!  It's practically worthless without shared memory.  When you have shared memory, it is just barely useful.  I've done dozens of mutlicore games in LoseThos.  LoseThos can use multicore for graphics rendering because it has no GPU, so LoseThos is unrealistically best case for multicore.  Multicore is crap when you have a GPU.