[_hao]

I love C++ for the power it gives me, but boy do I hate reading C++ code. I know most of these things are for historical reasons and/or done because of parser compatibilities etc. but it's still a pain.

[werdnapk]

I used to live and breath C++ early 2000s, but haven't touched it since. I can't make sense of modern C++.

[TuxSH]

> I can't make sense of modern C++

A lot of it is about making metaprogramming a lot easier to write and to read.

No more enable_if kludges since if constexpr (and concepts for specific stuff); and using concepts allows to better communicate intent (e.g.: template<typename I> can become template<std::integral I> if you want the template to be used only with integer types, and so on)

[SJC_Hacker]

You may want to watch some of Herb Sutters videos. He is one of the few sane people left in the upper echelon of C++ supporters

[SJC_Hacker]

Only if by power you mean performance. Otherwise C++ is not a very ”powerful” language.

I’d like to see an example of a task that can be done with less verbosity in C++ than say, Python, using only the standard library

[sorenjan]

    ++foo; // Increment value of foo by one

    foo += 1 # Increment value of foo by one