C, still?

C, still?

When your language is powerful enough to present facilities (i.e., libraries) that admit only valid operations, without compromising performance, worries over invalid operations creeping in vanish.

This I can agree with. But C++ is not that language. My biggest gripe with it is that it cannot protect its abstractions. Where I work, this turns up every time the g++ compiler is upgraded, despite having warnings to the max in mandatory compiler options. The programmers has used the language or its library in a way that happened to work in the old version, but either does not compile in the new version, or crashes. (A contributing problem is also the horrid complexity of modern C++).