I am a C++ dev and I kind of enjoy it. There is a lot of hate towards C++ and a good part of it is justified. Yet what vindicates the language in my opinion is

I am a C++ dev and I kind of enjoy it. There is a lot of hate towards C++ and a good part of it is justified. Yet what vindicates the language in my opinion is that some of the most complex and interesting software in the world is written in C++ (browsers, search engines, machine learning engines, database management systems, game engines, you name it). So if you want to work on those you'd better know the difference between a reference and a shared_ptr. As for the masochism... Well, after some time you stop noticing the warts and just work around them without expending much mental energy. Not a big deal.