"C++ has a rather odd culture..." I have been writing C++ professionally for 15 years and agree. It has excellent ecosystem in several domains. On the other ha

"C++ has a rather odd culture..." I have been writing C++ professionally for 15 years and agree. It has excellent ecosystem in several domains. On the other hand, in some areas the user needs to deal with incomprehensible and user hostile tooling and ecosystem glitches. The weird thing is that more often than not the latter pathologies are considered "just fine", which just baffles me. Modern setups like Rust and it's tooling has demonstrated clearly that high performance native language has no intrinsic requirements to be user hostile. Some people like to think that dealing with C++'s unnecessary complexities is somehow virtuous, when in fact they are a a bug of the platform (but one you need to deal with since if you need to write C++, you really need to write C++).