> I am not sure what C++ brings in as a language.

C speed of execution, while offering support for large scale programming, OOP, functional, generic and plain old imperative programming.

Ability to treat user defined types as first class citizens.

Standard library that offers all mechanisms to avoid the traditional C pitfalls in terms of memory/resource leaks and out-of-bounds errors.

> This language seems plain crazy, this kind of article makes me wonder why people think it can be a reasonable choice for any kind of software project.

Except for Ada, very few languages offer similar capabilities and Pascal like syntax is out of fashion.

> At least, C can fit in a brain.

Can you master all compiler specific behaviours not covered by the standard?!?