Yeah, I know what you mean by using a small subset of C++. To be perfectly honest (and I'm just a hobbyist who writes simple tools for myself... so I can get a

Yeah, I know what you mean by using a small subset of C++. To be perfectly honest (and I'm just a hobbyist who writes simple tools for myself... so I can get away with this a little easier than a professional could) but I got really frustrated when I was learning C++ and almost decided it wasn't worth it. Then I decided that I'd basically just treat C++ as C with strings, classes, and a few nifty, ready-made containers and useful algorithms. And doing this allowed me to enjoy the language quite a bit and do some very fun and useful things in it, all without becoming overwhelmed by its size/complexity. But again... this is as a hobbyist, nothing more.