[MauranKilom]

I don't think so. The complaints always seem to come from people who parted ways with C++ a long time ago. Given that C++ remains popular, it feels like some are unsure whether it was the right choice and they need to publicly self-justify it.

[yakubin]

What do you base that on? Just because someone chooses other languages whenever they can, doesn't mean they're not forced to use C++ at work.

[kllrnohj]

Many of the complaints about C++ really don't line up with day to day experiences using C++ IMO. They focus on problems and complexities that just don't come up often if at all unless you're really going into the weeds of implementating your own "STL-like" types.

It'd be like if every time Java is mentioned everyone just bashes how terrible JNI's API is. Yes, it is bad. It's frankly horrifying. But it's also basically 0% of where you spend your time when writing Java on the daily.

That's not to say C++ is rosey in practice, just the problems that actually get encountered on a modern code base almost never get mentioned here while all these esoteric edge cases that never come up in practice are beaten to death.

For example take C++ templates. In this thread they are slammed repeatedly. In practice you know what? They're fine. It's not that bad. Template metaprogramming is brain bending and hard, and I wouldn't suggest it. But basic templated classes or functions? No harder or more complex than the exact same thing in Java or C#. And in practice that's really all you do the overwhelming majority of the time.