I've been using C++ professionally and personally for a good ten years now, and aside from compilation speed, I don't really have any complaints about it. Use i

I've been using C++ professionally and personally for a good ten years now, and aside from compilation speed, I don't really have any complaints about it. Use it properly, use Boost, and it's quite decent. I only wish it had some of the sexy features of other languages, but C++0x (or whatever it's called now) is addressing a lot of that. It's really hard to take the things that C++ does well and do it significantly better. I think D has largely proven that.