For sure C++ does a lot of heavy lifting at compile time, which shows in poor compile and link times, although it is less of a problem today than 25 years ago s

For sure C++ does a lot of heavy lifting at compile time, which shows in poor compile and link times, although it is less of a problem today than 25 years ago since hardware performance has increased. I don’t agree that C++ automatically prevents bugs, even though using e.g. RAII can help a bit and leads to maintainable code. If you use exceptions (you probably shouldn’t) there is one more code-path out from your code. That together with constructors/destructors being called and using STL instead of more trivial data-structures often leads to a lot bigger assembler output to trawl through if you need to.