Why is C++...

...so bad? Why does it have such a bad reputation?

I'm an experienced C++ programmer and, while the language has warts, I can't understand the reason for the enormous amount of criticism against the language.

I'd like to hear the honest opinions of /prog/rammers in this regard.

>>81
I have faced just very few situations in which I really needed things like that, for projects of different nature.

This is called "blub"

For instance, functional code (both in the sense of "avoiding mutation" and "not dysfunctional" -- there is no difference, practically) is exceedingly difficult to write without a garbage collector. Automatic ref-counting in destructors can help, but it doesn't take you all the way there.

>>84
as a professional in the games industry, this kind of makes me rage. It is exactly this kind of attitude (and you have correctly identified its corollary: C++) that is keeping us from making better games. We can't iterate on designs; we have to keep reimplementing the same shitty, inflexible engines over and over.