I heavily disagree, as someone who uses C++ as my primary language at my job for the last three years, and who has a lot of experience in many other languages.

I heavily disagree, as someone who uses C++ as my primary language at my job for the last three years, and who has a lot of experience in many other languages. It has developed a lot of idiosyncrasies that range from "confusing unique syntax" to "using these two features together will blow your app up with no warning from the compiler".