Comment The STL is dramatically better now (Score 2) 435
I have been working with C++ (as well as Java, C# and other languages) for several projects over the past 13 years. Since C++ is still the main language for the projects I'm paid to work on, I find the improvements to the STL useful every day in avoiding doing custom things. We used to have our own class similar to std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr, which we have since replaced with the standard. With std::bind() we have reduced the complexity of many of our functions. As another commenter said, the lambda functions are great. I'm not sure why there is so much hate for C++. Having worked with both C# and Java on several projects, I still think our C++ projects have the cleanest code and have the best performance before tweaking. I am one of the few developers that bounces back and forth between languages so I don't think it is a case of C++ people trying to write C# or Java, the people writing C# and Java are developers who write those only.