I have for a long time considered C++ to be a language creation language, and to understand a particular codebase in C++, you'd have to survey the whole thing f

I have for a long time considered C++ to be a language creation language, and to understand a particular codebase in C++, you'd have to survey the whole thing first for the greater patterns that could be redesigning the way the whole codebase works. All the debates of static vs. dynamic, strong vs. weak, GC vs not, are arguments you can play out within in the same file of a C++ project. I think this is why arguments about it take hold so much, that is, given various conditions, just about anyone's arguments about C++ are right.