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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I see. So were you reading portions of the data from a file as you were operating on them? And in seeples you could just buffer your stuff in a fixed data structure to avoid dynamic memory allocations, where in java you probably wouldn't be able to avoid some dynamic memory usage?