My main problem with C++ is not that there's a lot to know (although this too). It's something else: even if you know C++ very well, you need a lot of external

My main problem with C++ is not that there's a lot to know (although this too). It's something else: even if you know C++ very well, you need a lot of external research to understand a snippet of code. A single line of C++ can trigger a lot of mechanisms which change the semantics. Overloaded operators, custom allocation, template overloads, copy vs reference - all of this depending on a huge graph of header files.