Not sure how to understand your concern. Yes, it's not 05AB1E. Yes, namespaces are necessary if you have code bases with millions of LOC. But for the most part,

Not sure how to understand your concern. Yes, it's not 05AB1E. Yes, namespaces are necessary if you have code bases with millions of LOC. But for the most part, C++ is as verbose as you make your type and variable names. Do you actually find it verbose to read or also verbose to type? I don't consider the latter an issue since 1. you normally spend much more time thinking than typing while programming, and 2. code is read much more often than it is written.