[SloopJon]

This is a long rant that covers a lot of ground, a lot of which will inevitably be ignored because the letters "C++" trigger people, myself included sometimes. (Skip ahead to "It's Not All Puppies and Butterflies" for some of the complaints.) The author is really impressed by C++11, as am I, after purposely ignoring C++ for the better part of twenty years.

I appreciate the shout outs to some packages and libraries to play with, although I still often find it a pain to incorporate other libraries into my projects. (Single-file headers, anyone?) I'm intrigued by FTXUI.

And boy, howdy, he's right: cppreference.com is amazing. Python's documentation is pretty good, but I've never seen anything as good as cppreference.com.

[zahlman]

cppreference.com is very, very good at being reference, as in the name.

Python's documentation is scattershot and incomplete in many places, and lacks a consistent copy-editing style - but it offers good coverage of all kinds of documentation (per the Diataxis framework), not just reference. The people writing that documentation explicitly take that framework into consideration and use it to look for ways to improve. (But it's still a volunteer effort that works basically the same way the code development does, following open-source principles, so.)

[tecoholic]

The article filled me on a lot of things I didn't know about C++ because I learnt it at school and college, but soon moved to Python/JavaScript for day job. I have been itching to "get closer to the system" for a while now, and learning Rust on the side hasn't been easy. This article gave me hope that, I might be able to do that if I refreshed C++. Hello CMake… or I should probably say, Meson.