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.

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Now it's not, at least not visibly, and that's all anyone needs to know about it.

And please don't start with the entire "you need to be popular to become popular" bullshit, languages and platforms get routinely bootstrapped based on their merit.

In 2005, people were choosing Ruby not because there was a lot of Ruby vacancies. And not because somebody convinced them to learn it on a dare, and they managed to understand the superiority of monkey patching.

In 2005, people were choosing Ruby because they saw DHH in a $1000 shirt and could smell easy money (also, Axe).

In 1970s, people were choosing C because they saw Unix and how it was ported on new hardware in the matter of days.

Contrary to the popular amongst lisp weenies belief, software industry is not "fashion-driven", Blub programmers actually have rather sensitive bullshit detectors.