You haven't known suffering until you tried to rewrite a large C++ codebase in Java. No clear ownership you say? All those members that clearly belong to one ob

You haven't known suffering until you tried to rewrite a large C++ codebase in Java. No clear ownership you say? All those members that clearly belong to one object suddenly have to be guarded against accidentally having their references shared, all that clear math code turns into an indecipherable mess and you can forget about lifecycles unless you guard every resource with a try block. Sadly I end up writing Java code from time to time because I can write passable swing UIs faster than I can set up Qt.