For a long time I thought that C++ was somehow a bad language (because that's the developer-talk-consensus, much like Java), but after I've written a decent amo

For a long time I thought that C++ was somehow a bad language (because that's the developer-talk-consensus, much like Java), but after I've written a decent amount (something like 100k loc or so as of now) in C++ I reversed my "opinion". C++ allows people to write code that requires intense study to understand (template magic etc.), but writing that code and getting it to work is very hard too, so there is actually very little of that around. Apart from that C++ is a good language which works well for developing applications (and Qt is a very good partner for it). And that's what really matters. (Another thing that comes to mind is that there is a huge amount of software for testing, analysing, introspecting and debugging C++ applications - I would say that most other ecosystems are lagging behind in that aspect)