Learning C++ is easy. What's hard is being able to afford a computer that can compile it in a reasonable amount of time.
I've seen projects written in C / Assembly that build over 9,000 objects in about 20 seconds on just one PC, whereas more than a few C++ codebases I've seen in the past couple years, that can be about as long as it takes to build just one file.
I honestly suspect the only folks really writing C++ consistently these days, on things like LLVM, are the ones who work at huge companies, with literal supercomputers devoted to compiling their code, which would prevent them from ever encountering the latency issues that exclude poor folk such as myself from any hope of ever hacking on their codebase. It's sort of like that scene of Agent Smith talking to Neo in the interrogation room: "What good is the source code... if you're unable to build?"
I've seen projects written in C / Assembly that build over 9,000 objects in about 20 seconds on just one PC, whereas more than a few C++ codebases I've seen in the past couple years, that can be about as long as it takes to build just one file.
I honestly suspect the only folks really writing C++ consistently these days, on things like LLVM, are the ones who work at huge companies, with literal supercomputers devoted to compiling their code, which would prevent them from ever encountering the latency issues that exclude poor folk such as myself from any hope of ever hacking on their codebase. It's sort of like that scene of Agent Smith talking to Neo in the interrogation room: "What good is the source code... if you're unable to build?"