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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scripting languages become unwieldy as projects grow in size.

depends on what you mean by size. Scripting languages can prevent you from NEEDING to grow the project, in many dimensions. If you do it RIGHT, you cut down on all the "accidental, intermediate" complexity and are just stuck with the complexity of the problem you're solving, which is usually not very substantial in the end.

they are also slow, much slower than java on average.

but with a scripting language you can usually profile and write the bottlenecks in C. The solution to performance is to have easy interop with C, not to try to sacrifice the simplicity of your VM, syntax, and semantics for petty short-term performance concerns.