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99% of "modern" C++ is just masturbation and trying to keep up with what other languages had 10 years ago. The introduction of new standards isn't improving any code, in fact it's just causing old code to rot faster as the gap widens between the latest standard and the standards companies actually use.

It's obvious to any developer with even a little experience that less is more, complexity is the enemy. C++ continually embraces complexity, it even appears to encourage it as an opportunity to show everybody else how smart you are.



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