> But when starting a new project and following some basic guidelines, C++ has become somewhat pleasant to work with I can agree with this, with the caveat th

> But when starting a new project and following some basic guidelines, C++ has become somewhat pleasant to work with I can agree with this, with the caveat that old libraries, still in popular use, are all over the place. For one thing, a lot of OS interop relies upon these libraries, although C++17 is aiming to standardize a lot of what used to be OS level functionality.