It seems to be that people seem to apply a higher bar to being a master of C++ than they do to other languages. Yes, it's possible to come up with "gotcha" que

It seems to be that people seem to apply a higher bar to being a master of C++ than they do to other languages. Yes, it's possible to come up with "gotcha" questions that are hard to answer for C++. There are dark corners of any language, C++ has more than many to be sure. Yet it seems that C++ detractors love to roam around in these dark corners far more often than actual serious users of the language do. It's very, very rare that I have run into a misunderstanding of the language that has caused a bug. What you almost always get is a compile error, which in fact, is exactly what you want. It's not the new features causing the bugs, it's the old ones. It's uninitialised variables, dangling pointers, undefined behavior, etc etc etc. And guess what, it's the new C++ features that are making those kinds of problems rarer and rarer as time goes on. It's starting to get pretty damn hard to use-after-free or leak memory.