I fell out of love with C++ over a decade ago. The discipline required to not shoot your foot off in a non trivial project was far greater than than the extra

I fell out of love with C++ over a decade ago. The discipline required to not shoot your foot off in a non trivial project was far greater than than the extra code needed when writing plain C, or, for bigger projects, C# and Java. I still reach for C first, and if I need higher level abstractions, I'm reaching for something other than C++.