[sgoody]

I'm a C# dev and I totally agree with this.

I've done a limited amount of C++ many many years ago before I even knew what garbage collection was and I keep thinking of revisiting it, but honestly in my line of work ("Enterprise") I don't need the mental overhead of dealing with things such as pointers and memory allocation.

Perhaps, my view is outdated, but I get the impression that everything in C/C++ is just a little thorny when compared to other slightly more high-level languages, such as namespaces, package management, list comprehensions, library compatibilities, type strictness etc.

I would like to be wrong about that though... I wish I had a little more motivation to spend some real time with C++ (or perhaps even C).