Calling the C++ standard library crap is acknowledging the Wheel was Not Invented Here. Glazing over the fact that Qt has an incredibly complicated object hier

Calling the C++ standard library crap is acknowledging the Wheel was Not Invented Here. Glazing over the fact that Qt has an incredibly complicated object hierarchy by saying "they're good for you" is not acknowledging the fact that it's complicated and difficult to learn or work with. You didn't even mention, e.g., MOC - Qt's incredibly complicated Meta-Object Compiler. And people call GObject complicated... Ignoring the fact that basically every other platform than Windows (and the platforms it has managed to infect) uses UTF-8 as its One True Encoding, and that you and Qt are proliferating the claim that every sufficiently complicated C++ project has its own string class with its own specific peculiarities is not a good thing. Most importantly, you can't dismiss his concerns by agreeing that all of them exist and that he shouldn't care.