It was a train wreck beforehand. It has since gotten even worse. The remarks I made at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=598805 http://news.ycombinator.com/

It was a train wreck beforehand. It has since gotten even worse. The remarks I made at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=598805 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=598805 still stand, IMHO; basically due to backwards compatibility concerns, there are almost always at least three ways of doing any trivial thing in C++, and the interactions between them are terrifying.