I programmed in C++ all through college, and I get the same feeling watching its development. TR1 brought the language to a pretty good place with smart point

I programmed in C++ all through college, and I get the same feeling watching its development. TR1 brought the language to a pretty good place with smart pointers, and at first C++11 looked awesome with its type inference features and range-based for loops. But, also in C++11 were tons of weird gotchas with new and old features. The one that comes to mind is the uniform initialization. It was supposed to fix the issues with calling regular constructors, so you could just use the new syntax and not worry. But, they also added initializer lists, and those have issues with uniform initialization, so now you not only need to know all the pre-existing issues with the old syntax, you need to know the new syntax and its issues. This all comes back to C++ refusing to break backwards compatibility, which is great and all, but at this point they've made a language that is only good for job security.