Modern C++ is extremely powerful, more so than any other systems language, but not simple. I’m not even a fan of the language per se, but there aren’t any alter

Modern C++ is extremely powerful, more so than any other systems language, but not simple. I’m not even a fan of the language per se, but there aren’t any alternatives currently that are as powerful or expressive and I actually use that power pretty regularly. You can’t express modern C++ in other languages with similar code gen in remotely similar lines of code, which is its unique strength. In my experience, if you use the full idiomatic toolbox of modern C++, code mostly works the first time. That was never the case when I was writing C, or even legacy C++ (which was terrible).