IMO C/C++ are great languages if you learn how memory and pointers etc. work. The tooling on the other hand is horrendous when you compare it to other languages like Rust.
Comparing language tooling to Rust is surely controversial when compiles in Rust take an order of magnitude longer than any other language. Sure, Rust's tooling has some nice features but let's not ignore this very important elephant in the room.
Do you have any source for that other than a hello world? I always read that both C++ and Rust take about the same amount of time.
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That said I was moderately upset by this Friday after carefully assembling a development container for a project at work. Guess I'll have to make something persistent somewhere if I don't want to twiddle my thumbs before each build.
The great benefits brought by having a standard tooling that actually has useful diagnostic and packaging makes any kind of slowdown tolerable.
Unless you code holding your piss.