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?

>>31
Guessing that you haven't worked in telecom/embedded real-time systems industry before.  In the high-tech industry, either you develop drivers in C/C++ and have job security for life if you are good or you develop testing tools in Java, Python and other scripting languages and are expendable and are fired immediately when times go bad.