C++ is retiring?
Yes.
On January 1st, 2022, all usage of the C++ language will be unsupported and developers will need to use a different language.
All usage of C++98, C++03, C++11, C++14, C++17, C++20, and C++"du jour" will also stop.
What started off as a bad language has only continued to grow worse, with extensions, changes, modifications and unreadable garbage that has had a profound and negative impact on the productivity of programmers, companies, and the global economy.
Fortunately, there exists a successor language, called C (Wikipedia) that encourages modern principles, such as developers being aware of the hardware they are writing for, being aware of the software they are writing, and the users that will use it. It directly remedies many of the shortcomings of C++, and most C++ developers already have a compiler for it!
Every day, there are exciting new problems and challenges to solve. But you don't need to change a language or invent a new one to tackle them! You can use the modular and abstractive power of other .c files, libraries, a human-comprehensible set of keywords and operators and the knowledge that your code will still build 40 years from now to efficiently create long-term solutions for these exciting challenges.
It is time for the remaining sane developers to say, "Enough already!" and put this silly academic experiment to rest.