What’s a C++ developer to do?

probably, there seems to be fewer reasons today for going to the trouble of learning proprietary non standardized, non publicly speced libraries and tools.
programmer productivity is also much lower with C++ or C no matter what people say. It takes more coding, more debugging, more testing and you probably have to type a lot more tildes than people doing C#, java and other gced, runtime and library speced alternatives…C++ unlike C cannot even claim to be compact…why would any one want to learn proprietary libraries? I understand the Palm developers but any body doing distributed (whatever that means), enterprise class or even desktop software…anything more complicated than a simple script needs OO, virtual runtimes and someone to take out the trash. If its going to take you more than an hour to do, you should do the object thing, if you are doing the object thing , you need to be with someone who takes out the trash, since objects while managing complexity are more verbose.
I don’t see why C++ would survive especially with JIT this and JIT that, just like assembler…we found an better way to do this