> C++ is not a very attractive language to write code in if there are viable alternatives, because it is objectively unpleasant and expensive to use From a cur

> C++ is not a very attractive language to write code in if there are viable alternatives, because it is objectively unpleasant and expensive to use From a current perspective I may agree, but in the ‘90 a number of programmers like me was really excited to be able to develop at a much higher abstraction level than C using classes and, later, templates, preserving efficiency and performances.