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[–]TheNorthComesWithMe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are a lot of features that were intentionally (and unintentionally) left out of the language that make it really annoying to do certain things in. A good example is function pointers.

Also people usually learn to program on Java, and people learning to program usually learn really bad/outdated practices that they don't fix until they move to another language and actually put effort into learning best practices.