How view on C++ changes over time

It’s funny how one’s view on things change over time.

Back in 2002, I wrote something that would be roughly translated like “C++ amazes me more and more”. In a positive sense! And I was talking about what is Boost.Spirit now.

A reply on local game development forums I wrote today (again, rough translation): “C++ is very hard and quite a horrible language, maybe you should not use it unless there are no alternatives”.

That’s quite a change in attitude we have here!

I feel like much of C++ horrors are a consequence of “it just somehow happened” (the whole template metaprogramming thing) or as a backwards compatibility with C requirement. Or maybe not, but I do agree with what ryg says here. Let’s play the internet memes: