> For some reason I do not fully understand, C++ projects I have participated are a contest of who can think of more convoluted C++ construct that nobody ever w

> For some reason I do not fully understand, C++ projects I have participated are a contest of who can think of more convoluted C++ construct that nobody ever will be able to understand and C++ seem to be absolutely perfect platform for it. I think it both a culture and a more technical language problem. There seems to be a sort of extreme "ackshually, ..." one-upmanship and/or pedantry in all the C++ forums I've ever participated in. Of course this is itself driven by the crazy complexity of just the base C++ language itself and the numerous edge cases for everything. I think it's very telling that nobody, not even long-time committee members, can even claims to know all of C++[0]. This is exacerbated further by the committee's unwillingness to remove anything. I mean even such an obsolete feature as trigraphs was only removed in C++17, probably about 15-20 years after it mattered to anybody but IBM with their EBCDIC. Another little fun observation: Initializing a variable can be done in soooo many ways. I think it's at something like 20+ different ways at last count... Not a good sign. I say all of the above as someone who actually appreciates a lot of things about C++. [0] Even to a first approximation. Obviously there will always be obscure corners of any practical language such that no human can know literally all of it.