> I sometimes wonder if all this complexity is a necessary consequence of that power. For many use cases you do not need all that knowledge. C++ is fast enough

> I sometimes wonder if all this complexity is a necessary consequence of that power. For many use cases you do not need all that knowledge. C++ is fast enough to not have to care. It's when you hit a wall that you need to get the extra tools to make things work. I have seen developers discussing obscure optimizations for a piece of code that will only be called once several minutes, and only after unparsing a JSON String. That one less instruction call by the CPU makes no difference whatsoever.