I had an epiphany: C++ doesn't actually suck

Yes, for a while I was a proponent of the 'C++ is for noobs, it lets you do stupid stuff, etc.' theory. This morning, I had a major facepalm moment.
While C++ is often used by total idiots, that in and of itself does not make it a poor language. It fills a rather important niche: a [more or less] high-level language that can still easily be compiled to machine code. As long as you've got a solid foundation in C, C++ is a good choice — then you know how it works behind the scenes. Not that I'd use it for anything absolutely requiring high speed, such as kernel code.
Okay, so maybe that was obvious to the more enlightened of you, but hey — give a former Apple fanboy a chance.

pauldonnelly wrote:
Peasantoid wrote:
pauldonnelly wrote:Sure, it does. It's an underpowered, overcomplicated mess filled with pointless trivia to be memorized and busy work. Its slogan should be: "C++: at least you're not writing in C." And it doesn't even do that well, since you nearly are writing C at times.
... enter the omnipresent negativity-spouting language bigot.
If you're going to make such claims, please provide examples so we can derive at least some informational value from your post.
Nah, this territory has been done to death. There's no need to rehash it at length here. I'm just providing some balance for this thread. It's not like we've seen any sterling arguments for C++ here either. Just a bit of "blame the programmer" and some "it's dangerous, so it must be powerful", tempered with some "C++ has moderately usable implementations of extremely common language features".
When you accidentally fill 400GB of space within 5 minutes of running your program, you learn not to worship C++, but rather treat it as a vengeful spirit. Respect it, but be very careful.

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