How could people complain on c++ when so many daily useful tools were written in it? Even their beloved JVM is a mere C++ program. Consider very successful and

How could people complain on c++ when so many daily useful tools were written in it? Even their beloved JVM is a mere C++ program. Consider very successful and really cross-platform Webkit, V8, Mozilla's Geeko and so on. And there are thousands successful proprietary projects like Informix and even this popular MySQL. If Google, Mozilla and many others can productively use C++ why other people can't? They even published guidelines how to use stable and portable subsets of language.