Workable when you control the whole codebase, not so much when you have to deal with external dependencies or huge piles of legacy code that you're stuck with.

Workable when you control the whole codebase, not so much when you have to deal with external dependencies or huge piles of legacy code that you're stuck with. I quite like writing C++ when it's just me or I have tight control, not so much when I have to deal with some of the large projects with code spanning 20-30 years of history and dozens of developers (some of which died before I even started my job) that I've worked on where it wasn't my call. Not that I have any specific traumatic experience in mind... Admittedly such a situation is not entirely due to C++, but it didn't help. But again, I do quite like C++ especially nowadays.