> What I want to say here is that C++ is really hard, and that there are a million subtle things that one simply has to look up instead of making educated guess

> What I want to say here is that C++ is really hard, and that there are a million subtle things that one simply has to look up instead of making educated guesses. I don’t think people appreciate this difficulty enough. Very much so. I tell everyone not to bother learning C++, there are so many other better languages out there. Hell, I'm only still using it because of legacy projects