I can only partially agree. The new stuff often breaks in much nastier ways when it does eventually break. The worst of that old school C with objects code (and

I can only partially agree. The new stuff often breaks in much nastier ways when it does eventually break. The worst of that old school C with objects code (and the toolchains that built it) can be dissected using simple tools and a lot of single stepping. Even when things miscompiled, you had a reasonable shot of figuring out the boundary conditions so you could avoid it in the future. A lot of the modern stuff isn't like that. There's a thousand different rules governing ten thousand different constructs that interact in fun and dangerous ways.