Yes. C++ used to be my favorite language. I still like it a lot, but I no longer love it. The trick, in my opinion, to C++ was what you were not doing. Coding

Yes. C++ used to be my favorite language. I still like it a lot, but I no longer love it. The trick, in my opinion, to C++ was what you were not doing. Coding in such a rich language means making a lot of decisions up front about limiting complexity. That turns out to be a good thing. The reason it's not my favorite anymore? Because the language designers seem hell-bent on continuing to make it more and more feature-ful. Over time, it's creating a huge, diverse codebase, all with the title "C++ code" on it, but all vastly different in nature and scope. That ain't a good thing. STL is a good example. On its own, STL is a good thing. Greatly needed in the language. But now that its implemented, its basically its own system. You could solve world hunger with STL (I am being factitious to make a point) Remember the criticism Microsoft always had, that they couldn't build anything that did just a few things? Everything had to be able to do everything? C++ has that, only worse. I like the language. I really do. I don't know if I've given up on it -- unless I wanted to tweak the hell out of something or was writing lower-level code the answer is probably "yes" -- but it seems to be heading in a direction that is not good for the maintenance programming community. It's great for really smart people who love complex things, but no so much for the poor schmuck coming in 10 or 15 years later. It's become a monster.