> I've always felt writing in C++ requires much more skill, and that alone is a very rewarding experience. I can tune things like arena allocators and make stri

> I've always felt writing in C++ requires much more skill, and that alone is a very rewarding experience. I can tune things like arena allocators and make string operations insanely fast, things I agree most problems simply don't require, but still, its a craft that I feel very proud of conquering, and every day you learn something new. It's important to distinguish professional from hobby programming. Challenge for the sake of challenge is certainly interesting/fun, but, no employer would pay employees to write programs in Brainfuck just because it's challenging, while it's ok in hobby programming, because the resources (=time) are virtually infinite. Of course, there's a value in an employer allowing a certain amount of extra resources for the employees' "growth for the sake of growth". I think the article grossly misses the point of what makes C++ problematic, as it considers a programming language in the context of a single programmer solving a simple problem, while the real-world issues of C++ are in the context of a team and memory management of large programs.