Go watch recent talks by Herb Sutter and Bjarne Stroustrup--they both lament the fact that C++ never developed as strong a standard library as Python, etc. With C++14 and beyond the C++ working committee is actively trying to make the language and libraries more complete and comparable to larger libraries out there.
In a low-level language like C there's _never_ a right solution out of the box. Instead, you use the language because it permits you to tailor the solution to the problem.
In a high-level language like Python there's always a right solution. It's just rarely well-tailored to the problem.
I'm not at all surprised C++ is still muddling around in the middle somewhere.
