> FYI the author keeps talking about high frequency trading as an example of why modern c++ is a bad choice. Well, I worked at a HFT firm for a long time until

> FYI the author keeps talking about high frequency trading as an example of why modern c++ is a bad choice. Well, I worked at a HFT firm for a long time until last year, the firm places millions of trades per day and is among the most successful in the markets it trades. And what did we use? Only modern features. Lambdas, auto, unique_ptr, range-fors, even std::async -- everywhere in our code. This author is either naive or political. Just an anecdote, but I also work at a successful HFT as well modern C++ is almost everywhere, without any performance hits and much cleaner code. Often it's easier to write fast code with it.