In my experience writing C++ as a hobbyist & minor professional work, it leads to complexity for a couple reasons. - Lack of higher order functions generates b

In my experience writing C++ as a hobbyist & minor professional work, it leads to complexity for a couple reasons. - Lack of higher order functions generates boilerplate classes for fairly simplistic closure-istic operations - Using templates with any sophistication infects gobblygooky templating syntax around your codebase. Since templates are actually a really nifty concept and worth using, this happens pretty quickly and now your codebase has more angle brackets than braces. ;) - Inability to add syntactic abstraction means everything is written out, all the time. I spent a lot of time learning C++98. After I got exposed to other languages, I don't think I'm going back to C++ without a good reason. There's too much ceremony for too little gain. Arguably with sufficient blood, sweat, and tears libraries can be written to make C++ do or fake what other languages do easily, e.g., regex, closures or continuations. I think that taking the dynamic language approach of C in the performance parts and dynamic language for the rest is a better way to architect your system. Or, select a dynamic language that compiles to native code. :-)