You are probably writing your comment via lots of software written in C++. It's a great language with lots of flaws introduced by legacy decisions that would be made differently today.
Rocket fuel, as I said. Dangerous, powerful, indispensable in certain kinds of projects. Up until the advent of Rust, there was no viable alternative for C++ in large, long-running, performance-critical codebases, like browsers or game engines.
(I say this as a fan of Haskell and Rust, and a daily user of Python, Typescript, and elisp. Last time I wrote production C++ was in 2021, like 50 lines.)
(I say this as a fan of Haskell and Rust, and a daily user of Python, Typescript, and elisp. Last time I wrote production C++ was in 2021, like 50 lines.)