I write C++ as my day job. The secret is you don’t need keep up. The standard is weird and getting weirder. And no, it’s not ”well thought out complex technical

I write C++ as my day job. The secret is you don’t need keep up. The standard is weird and getting weirder. And no, it’s not ”well thought out complex technical endeavour”. It’s a jury rigged pile of legacy code with tons of useless sugar, somewhat modern features, and weird omissions. C++ is a weird combination of pragmatic features, close to the metal performance (which you can junk if you don’t actually understand what is happening on machine kevel), universally abysmal tooling (compared to other current languages), huge ecosystem of super-usefull super-nontrivial libraries… a combination of super good and super bad. If you don’t need the super good stuff (which you don’t need unless you know you need it) all you are left with is the bad stuff. The C++11 is okay. C++ committee is a weird combination of clown-car non-savant idiots and super talented pros.