What you don't understand that some of the main consumer of C++ are industries, whose development cycles that can be decades (!) long. A lot of them have C code that were written 30 years ago that are still in production. Maybe standardization is slow, but it is stable. I'm still working on projects that don't support templates because our supplied compilers don't handle them.

Java is how old again? And how many versions do we have? How many things that were original available in java are deprecated now? Does your java 1.1 code run with the java 1.6 JRE?

Nobody said C++ development is fast or easy. But it has been working for 3 decades now. This is what the community is trying to preserve.