> Coming from more "designed" languages like C#, my experience of C++ was that it felt like an insane, emergent hodgepodge, but what impressed me was how far th

> Coming from more "designed" languages like C#, my experience of C++ was that it felt like an insane, emergent hodgepodge, but what impressed me was how far the language has come since the 90s. No more passing raw pointers around and forgetting to deallocate them, you can get surprisingly far these days with std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr, and they're finally even making their way into a lot of libraries. I worked for a robotics company for a bit, writing C++14. I don't remember ever having to use raw pointers. That combined with the functionality in Eigen made doing work very easy --- until you hit a template error. In that case, you got 8 screens full of garbage.