sloyd

I couldn't agree more and created an account just to second your thoughts.

This is exactly why everyone hates using modern C++. Their standards committee has run amok with every fancy feature that every new language comes out with in the past two decades. And what has that wrought? A huge language that no one fully understands and is hard to read unless you happen to be the guy that wrote it and time since writing < two weeks.

C is simplistically beautiful. I can write it and understand exactly what the assembly will look like on the backend of the compiler (with the exception of nasty macros). Don't mess with that. If it doesn't feel like it belongs, that's probably because it doesn't! Know when to stop.