| For me, that disillusion has been one of several steps. Scott Meyers book was one point. Then I started to learn Clojure, motivated by the idea that we need better concepts for the upcoming massively parallel hardware (a big influence for me was the article "The free lunch is over" by Herb Sutter: http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm). I now think that immutability by default is clearly the better way to go, even in close-to-the machine applications like embedded devices and industrial control applications. Then, I saw this article on the different options and syntax for initializing variables in modern C++: http://mikelui.io/2019/01/03/seriously-bonkers.html And I was like, no, this can't be serious. I think this was the point where I began to distance from the language (though I still use it at work when I need to). I got also the impression that the actual language use in C++ is undergoing a serious split. Compare the C++ core guidelines with Google's C++ style guide: https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html This does already look somewhat like different languages, only that they can be compiled with the same compiler. And then, the C++17 and C++20 standard iterations, at this point it is just like "this is too much! What is this good for?" |