C++ is still the best choice

Are most criticisms of C++ thinly veiled, "it's too hard for me" excuses? All my profs speak highly of C++ and emphasize the importance of learning it to make high performance applications. Stack Overflow seems to like it as well.

Why does 4chan hate it so?

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Haskell
Has GC, compiler produces less efficient code than good C++ compiler. Too slow for speed critical applications.
Erlang
GC again. I don't know how good the native code compiler for this is, but I would guess it won't produce as good code as C++ compilers do.
D
This would be good. But it has GC. It can be disabled, but then the standard library becomes useless.

Just use C++.