I suspect that a lot of the C++ bashing you see comes from A) Experience with Microsoft Tools; B) Experience with 90s era C++ code bases, often produced by team

I suspect that a lot of the C++ bashing you see comes from A) Experience with Microsoft Tools; B) Experience with 90s era C++ code bases, often produced by teams "trained up" in it. Modern C++ done "the boost way" is a great language. I have rewritten perl prototypes in modern C++ with hardly any code expansion, but with huge performance and deployability gains.