random crashes Which means whoever wrote the code was doing it wrong. Which is not that strange given C++ really did (and still sort of does) make it easy to m

random crashes Which means whoever wrote the code was doing it wrong. Which is not that strange given C++ really did (and still sort of does) make it easy to make certain mistakes. But which could be countered by a better understanding and learning of the pitfalls. Good news is: all of that got in my opinion better since C++11 and beyond. Lots of cruft still there of course, but most of the time you don't need to touch it. And if you do have to, you're ither doing it wrong, or there's a really good reason for it. Should you start from scratch, using a proper book or tutorial, you shouldn't have too much problems. If you don't start from scratch, you're going to have to spend extra time in forgetting a bunch of things you learned about C++. I've seen more than a couple of programmers really struggling going from C to C++03 (and as a result writing C with a class here and there and, god forbid, even using a vector or string or algorithm), and from C++03 to C++17 is not that different.