>"It's absolutely more productive than C++ when you account for the productivity benefits of "not shooting yourself in the foot" with pesky memory-safety bugs"

>"It's absolutely more productive than C++ when you account for the productivity benefits of "not shooting yourself in the foot" with pesky memory-safety bugs" When doing generic application level programming: use STL containers, iterators and algorithms properly and you won't have any of those pesky bugs. Does not require much efforts. If you do want to shoot yourself C++ will of course offer thousands of ways for you to do so. But with modern C++ it has to be your choice. Unless of course you are working on some specialized system type code, libraries like STL and other similar tasks.