> My feeling during the read, and my definite conclusion afterwards, is that I didn't read a collection of new nice additions to the language, but a list of min

> My feeling during the read, and my definite conclusion afterwards, is that I didn't read a collection of new nice additions to the language, but a list of minefields and new fancy ways to crash your program. I don't think that's a reasonable take on both the book and C++11/c++14. `Effective Modern C++` is not an intro tutorial, but a book dedicated to trivial and nontrivial gotchas, none of which leads your program to crash. Worst case scenario you just get a compiler error of your own doing, and that's it. I mean, the book covers stuff like the importance of using nullptr instead of NULL, why braced initialization is nice, why and how smart pointers should be used to implement a pimpl, etc. This is hardly mine field territory, and it makes absolutely no sense at all to use these tidbits of all things to justify switching to an entirely new programming language.