Comment by yason

While my pet peeves might be different than the author's I agree that C++ makes you work very hard to keep things simple and produce something that is beautiful. Just "avoid the complexity you don't absolutely need" doesn't really work: some basic things are so fundamentally convoluted that I rather just write idiomatic C because it's simple and doesn't get in my way. I want the language to originate from simple axioms so that I can concentrate on the complexity of the problem I'm solving instead of wasting brain cycles on battling the complexity of the language. I would like to like C++ but its benefits barely zero out the extra hoops.