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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If you don't care about performance right off the bat, there is no reason at all to use C++. If you do care about performance, C++ makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to measure in general cases. So the target audience for C++ are projects with well-defined requirements, known in advance, and well-defined use-cases, known in advance. In such cases using a restricted subset of C++ is not unreasonable (though only because nothing else quite applies).

We call them "games."