Something I’ve been regretting lately is quite how much of C++ I forget after not having used it for about 2 years (and having used it for about 8 before that). I have to admit I had a really hard time understanding that C++ template engine blog post. C++ really can get pretty dense.
That said, as I’ve seen the use of Python rise there’ve been a fair number of places where I couldn’t help but scratch my head and wonder what was the point of doing it in Python and introducing a language barrier when you could just do it in C++. I did plotting in C++ for many years, it wasn’t difficult. Not everything in C++ has to be a nightmare.
Regardless, I’m much happier using Julia for everything now. Once I can statically compile binaries in Julia I wouldn’t be surprised if I never used C++ again (of course that’s not something that would be possible for everyone).