> Simple languages push complexity to the user. Complex languages on the other hand simplify the user's tasks. I don't think this captures the uniquely awful c

> Simple languages push complexity to the user. Complex languages on the other hand simplify the user's tasks. I don't think this captures the uniquely awful combination of "object oriented" + "low level (manual memory management)" that C++ chose. I think that's the most inherently complex dyad of traits you can choose for a programming language, and I think it's why C++ is the most complex programming language that's ever existed. They even tried hiding the complexity in shame with implicit behavior, like the compiler synthesizing the "rule of 5" functions for you, meaning you have to go out of your way and mark them as "deleted" to tell it not to do that when you know it'll do it wrong and leak memory and you have to memorize what the "rule of 5" is. (The only other language I can think of that went down the same route is D, but I don't know how complex it is in comparison to other languages. Maybe Walter Bright can argue it's a counterexample to my argument cause it's waaay simpler than C++. But then I'll counter-counter argue that it has garbage collection. But then again that's optional. My brain hurts.)