Let's be friends! I did a lot of C++ back in the late 90s/early 2000s, and it kind of sat on the shelf for me for a while. I've recently come back and am discovering all of the joys of modern C++(11/14). I'm really really impressed. The first project was a cross-platform library on top of libusb. With all of the great concurrency things built-in now (std::thread/mutex/lock, etc), I managed to write the whole library without a single #ifdef! Generates Linux .so, OS X .dylib, and Windows DLLs. Amazing!