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by missblit 1375 days ago
FWIW as a professional C++ programmer since I graduated university 7 years ago I haven't really had that experience.

There's certainly a large learning gap; both for "classic" C++ as well as the popular modern features. But once you get over that I haven't found other peoples C++ any harder to read than other peoples C or JavaScript or Python.

No one's reaching to esoteric features like "..." or atomics unless they're some low level library wizard (in which case all their friends are also low level library wizards) or the situation actually calls for it.