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> It feels like piling on ever more complexity to a language which has already surpassed its complexity budget, and given that the feature comes with its own set of footguns I'm not sure that it is justified.

This is a common sentiment about C++, but I find it very interesting that everyone seems to have a different feature in mind when they say it.

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I think that's a clear and unambiguous point in favor of the argument. There are so many hellishly complex things in C++ that the community can't settle on even a small subset to be the worst contender.

Half Life 3 rules apply. Every time someone complains about complexity in C++, the committee adds a new overly complex feature. It remains a problem because complexity keeps getting shoveled on top of the already complex language.

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