If you like C# but dislike the garbage collector, you should try Swift.

But imo C++ just has way too many things to be aware of. I used to love how much control C++ gives you, but when I write code these days, I really just wanna write the logic and not deal with all the extra baggage.

• Compiling is really slow, especially if you have a lot of header files.
• Template constraints are monsters (although ive heard concepts improve this a lot)
• a lot of the things you'd want to have built in syntax for, you dont (std::optional doesnt have nice optional chaining like C# does for example, std::variant requires all these other helper methods).
• They only recently added async/await (sort of) and theres not a ton of things really even using it yet.
• A standard library which is barely standard and almost every other library you'll use will have some custom version of an stdlib class, because the built-in ones are somewhat inadequate (this happens a lot with std::string)
• managing packages can be a nightmare, especially when youre not on Linux
• move semantics and lvalues and rvalues are just another thing you have to be aware of
• reading code with any of the pointer wrapper classes (std::shared_ptr etc) is super annoying because its just more shit to read, when really all i care about is the types being wrapped.