the "Modern C++" community Could you describe what/who you think this is, because I don't really see a community as a whole for who the points you make are val

the "Modern C++" community Could you describe what/who you think this is, because I don't really see a community as a whole for who the points you make are valid. Sure there's some crazy purists everywhere, but in general I don't think it's as bad as you mention. Then again might be biased because I write way more C++ than C. I know cherry-picking isn't usually the most fair way to discuss, but some things really strike me as unfair so I can't help it. obsessed with "best practices" not sure if this is really bad? When pushed to the extreme it is, but that goes for anything extreme, but I don't really feel the C++ community is like that. At least I've read many times things in the spirit of 'best practices ar good, follwing them blindly is not'. Also anecdotally from all colleagues I ever worked with those with some healthy amount of (as in, still being able to think critically) obsession with trying to Do The Right Thing, always wrote better code than those who lacked that OOP was oversold it surely was, but imo one of the things modern C++ teaches us is exactly that: OOP overuse is bad and you don't have to use OOP at all in C++ if you don't want to "some bloke named Herb says X, so you must follow him" sort of attitude which is in turn countered by an attitude of questioning everything, no matter if the author is called Herb or Bjarne, and I don't think I'm dreaming that (at least I've seen many questions on SO starting with 'in xxx Herb says y, wtf is that all bout?'). On the other hand, those guys' advice is usually golden so following it won't hurt much, as long as you don't blindly follow it. I just want to use the features of the language that make it easier and simpler to solve a problem more efficiently in the end everybody wants this I guess, and I do have the feeling that when searching for questions to typical problems I usually do get an answer telling me exactly what to use. Also take https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines for example: sure theres a whole lot of info but it does give a ton of good/bad examples, plus reasoning behind it