[arunmu]

I have been a big fan of C++ and have had used it for about 8-9 years professionally as well as for side projects. The baggage that comes with it is just not worth it. My recommendation for any new project is to go either with Go or Rust as a C++ replacement unless the environment or hardware or resource constraints does not allow you otherwise.

As an individual developer, learning and being an expert in C++ intricacies is not worth the time and effort. Instead learn more about data layout in memory, hardware, language tooling etc and write code accordingly in a much better language as per the _need_ and C++ would really only qualify for very niche requirements.