alt Hacker NewsThe thing what people don't get with C++'s complexity is that complexity is unavoidable.
It is also there in Ada, C#, Java, Python, Common Lisp,....
Even if the languages started tiny, complexity eventually grows on them.
C23 + compiler extensions is quite far from where K&R C was.
Scheme R7 is quite far from where Scheme started.
Go's warts are directly related to ignoring history of growing pains from other ecosystems.
> Even if the languages started tiny, complexity eventually grows on them.
And then of course the case that proves the opposite, Clojure. Sure, new ideas appear, but core language is more or less unchanged since introduced, rock solid and decades old projects still run just fine, although usually a bit faster.