It's not so much about having geniuses coding in it, it that when you do use it, you use it to make conceptually elegant code. When I work in C++, I simply do n

It's not so much about having geniuses coding in it, it that when you do use it, you use it to make conceptually elegant code. When I work in C++, I simply do not use templates, because I find the make the code impossible to grok - the complexity can overwhelm you (let alone a new developer unfamiliar with a given C++ code base). Treat C++ like Ruby, and try to use it to make beautiful, and elegant code. That's where it shine, IMHO.