Comment by agentultra

I agree, there is a nice language buried in all the features trying to escape.

The struggle is that if you choose a subset of the language to use and you have dependencies… well you’re including whatever features they use into your subset.

I don’t think C++ is a bad language at all or anything. Just that it nudges developers into certain modes of thinking based on the features it chooses to focus on. Might explain why some developers still choose C.