If anyone's visiting Stockholm, the Vasa museum is well worth a visit.
For those further afield, the museum's website offers a wealth of details about its conception, history, discovery, and our contemporary understanding of the wreck.
Vasa Museum: https://www.vasamuseet.se/en/explore/vasa-history/inquest
This word translated poorly, so the translation was a bit hard to read :)
"Why C++ Sails When the Vasa Sank"
"I'm not sure how much of the story is actually true"
Some stories – like the one published here by FT – are overly simplistic. For a good, accurate, scientific history of the Vasa, the Vasa Museum's site is extremely detailed (and also separates supposition and apocryphal tales from established science).
Website of the Vasa Museum in Stockholm: https://www.vasamuseet.se/
While in Norway you can visit and walk aboard the "Fram". The most successful Arctic Exploration ship.
I was recently reading about the original great Chicago wheel(The Ferris wheel). it lasted about 10 years, nobody wanted it. The contract said the fair land had to be restored to original form. So they just blew it up, nothing left, did not even try to save a car. The other disappointing part was that Ferris was a bit secretive and no technical drawings for it are known to exist. I really wanted to know how it was powered, more that the blurb you get in the articles. Best I found from the pictures is there are cast wide spaced(not gear spaced) drive slots riveted to the rim and vague mentions of a chain. Some sort of wide spaced bicycle type chain in partial engagement against the rim?
See also: The USS Enterprise(CV-6) if any ship deserved to be a museum ship that one did, but they were not able to muster the enthusiasm needed at the time she was broken up.
Yes, we all remember the Vasa, and understand how it applies to any untested overengineered idea.
We clearly do not given that this story repeats over and over again.