I pretty much only program in C++ at work and Rust at home now, and I think Rust is hands-down a better designed language. It just feels more coherent and consistent.
I used to despise C++, but ever since I've had to abandon all usage of it's std library, I don't mind it anymore. It's a bit less crufty that way. Though I'm still peeved every time the compiler dumps 30 pages of every virtual method in existence because it couldn't find one that matched my call.
> I pretty much only program in C++ at work and Rust at home now, and I think Rust is hands-down a better designed language. It just feels more coherent and consistent.
C++ turned out kinda... good -- considering that it started out as "tacking classes on C".
Classes (with destructors) is the single most powerful and important addition to plain C. In C, even exceptions can be emulated, more or less naturally, but destructors cannot (without a compiler-specific extension). So, I'd argue that the best parts were the ones that came in early. The latest version of C++, of course, is nothing to sneeze at, either.
I used to despise C++, but ever since I've had to abandon all usage of it's std library, I don't mind it anymore. It's a bit less crufty that way. Though I'm still peeved every time the compiler dumps 30 pages of every virtual method in existence because it couldn't find one that matched my call.