[stingraycharles]

The issue you describe is more a compiler-specific issue than a language specific issue. Yes, the language allows a lot of flexibility and therefor in some situations it's hard to nail down an error to a nice, specific error message (mostly when templates are involved), but it's not impossible, as clang++ shows.

Believe it or not, there are people (like me) who actually enjoy coding in C++.

[fafner]

It's a language specific issue. Sure clang++ has improved error reporting and GCC is actually quickly catching up. But the problem is a language issue because an error in a template confronts you with implementation details of the template. There is nothing the compiler can do about it.