Why use C++

Why is C++ so useless and to all the C++ people here what do you use it for?

- It is useless for systems programming because you can just use C and every serious systems programmer does that and every serious kernel/driver programmer hates C++.

- There are nicer languages for userspace programming so why use C++? It doesn't even have garbage collection and its standard library is a joke. Not to mention all the things that are so horribly broken in this language.

Why use C++ at all? Seriously this language is useless and Linus Torvalds agrees.

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There's a sort of programmer who's more interested in the act of writing code and solving puzzles than anything else. C++, with its heaping set of extra puzzles, verbosity, and slow development time, fits the bill perfectly. You don't even need an interesting project to get your brain twisted. This type of programmer is also very fond of things such as manual memory management, slow compilation, and anything else that makes them feel like they're a “real programmer”.