Agreed! I use C++ for small scripts/tools and love it. Granted, I first spent some time writing a library of convenience functions like starts_with(), ends_with

Agreed! I use C++ for small scripts/tools and love it. Granted, I first spent some time writing a library of convenience functions like starts_with(), ends_with(), contains(), get_file_contents(), read_csv_file(), etc. that so many languages have built into their standard libraries, but to be honest, even that part was a lot of fun!