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Honestly, it seems like the people who complain loudest about C++ have barely used it. C++11 is fantastic. C++14 and beyond are quite exciting as well. I'd avo

by TillE 12y ago

Honestly, it seems like the people who complain loudest about C++ have barely used it. C++11 is fantastic. C++14 and beyond are quite exciting as well. I'd avoid Alexandrescu-style template trickery unless you really truly need it, though. You can write good C++ that more or less resembles Java, and that's fine.

pfultz2 12y ago
> You can write good C++ that more or less resembles Java That doesn't sound like good C++. Making everything a pointer or implementing polymorphism through pointers makes the code harder to reason about, and makes tighter coupling between interfaces and implementations.