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C++ is an absolute blast
Where I try to explain why I feel like C\+\+ is so much fun, and to correct some misinformation.
This obsession with using template metaprogramming for everything--combined with what I recall as a weird arrogance in the C++ standards committee to refuse to make things nice for programmers--is what tainted C++ for me and many people. I think this is probably about the same time that many people my age quit using C++, and most of you probably remember an overly wordy complex language with a bunch of syntax but not a lot of gain for all the<> angle-brackets. C++ is so unfashionable even the White House hates it, so all those authoritarian douchebags who run around smashing you over the head with standards documents have fled to languages where they can peddle their bullshit influencer garbage.
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