C++ is very hard. IMO, that's why people dislike it. I was writing a test output parser in Python: ~50 lines of functional code in less than an hour. Testing t

C++ is very hard. IMO, that's why people dislike it. I was writing a test output parser in Python: ~50 lines of functional code in less than an hour. Testing the script for about 10-20 mins and tweaking it to my liking. The same in C++ would've required me to look up/read up a bunch of library functions that I've forgotten (Should I use file I/O, string manipulation C functions or C++ functions?), link to a few libs (non-C++11) or read some obscure documentation on C++11's regex implementation. Compile, test, change, repeat. This is way more time spent as compared to the Python option. This is not a fair judgment of the language, but my point is that for something simple there are other languages. For something complicated, C++ has been used in many applications (successfully and unsuccessfully). But there is no doubt that once a C++ code base becomes large it is extremely hard to maintain.