Honestly, I haven't used C++ in ages, and I believe you that there great rationalizations for a lot of its behaviors. That's beside the point in my mind though.

Honestly, I haven't used C++ in ages, and I believe you that there great rationalizations for a lot of its behaviors. That's beside the point in my mind though. The end result is a very large and complex language that's very error prone. C++ goes completely against the principle of least astonishment.There is a huge amount of mental overhead to reading and writing code in it. All that distracts you from the problem you're actually solving and directly translates into long development times, defects, and maintainability nightmares. I don't think the complexity of the language ultimately justifies the goals it's trying to accomplish.