Anti-C++ Hipsters

People who hate C++ are only doing so because it's hip and cool to hate on something that seems too complex at first glance. You want to be seen as cool and edgy, as someone who goes against the grain, when in reality you're just another annoying undergraduate that will probably have a hard time finding a job in the field.

C++ is not perfect, but no language is. Get over it.

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no, the biggest advantage java has over something like C++ is full stack trace availability any time an error occurs. that and it rules out entire subclasses of problems. the type safety is also a huge factor. eclipse and other tools let me see every single place a variable is referenced very easily. a type unsafe language like javascript just can't do that.

typical business programming is to be given 100k line program, be told, "hey we want this bug fixed or this feature added", and to do it as quickly as possible and safely as possible. that is very difficult with C++. even if you don't create a new bug, rearranging variables in memory could expose old memory smashing bugs. things like valgrind are nice, but if a bug only occurs at high transaction rates, then it's not going to help you.