Eh, like anything there are good C++ codebases and bad C++ codebases. As much as HN loves to hate on C++, it's definitely possible to write good, clean, modern

Eh, like anything there are good C++ codebases and bad C++ codebases. As much as HN loves to hate on C++, it's definitely possible to write good, clean, modern C++ that avoids the majority of these issues. For instance, variadic templates in C++ wouldn't have the issue described in this article. In practice, I've had far less issues working with modern C++ codebases than with modern Java codebases.