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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The point is that you don't really have control over memory usage outside static allocation. Modern JVMs are able to perform escape analysis by stack allocation or scalar replacement, for example, yet memory usage is still quite high, and not just because of virtualization.