for me the problem with C++ is not about the verbosity itself... it's more about how generally incomprehensible maybe even hostile it is towards you if you lack

for me the problem with C++ is not about the verbosity itself... it's more about how generally incomprehensible maybe even hostile it is towards you if you lack experience compared to other languages I've worked with (JS, Python, Java, Go, ..): - navigating through template compilation error messages is a pain. - standard library is getting better, but still feels lacking. - different commonly used libraries have different code styles and reimplement the same things in different ways. - combine the previous two and you get small-ish projects where you have 4 or more different types of strings (char, const char, std::string, QString, ...) - no standard build/publish/compile/library distribution system makes using less-known external libraries a giant pain in the ass.