It has been a long time since I did work in C++, and I recall a number of foot-guns in the language. Reading the design document for Carbon and looking at the

It has been a long time since I did work in C++, and I recall a number of foot-guns in the language. Reading the design document for Carbon and looking at the samples, it appears that many of these are not as easy to access. Things such as "not using the preprocessor for meta programming" by itself is a significant advantage.