&quot;one of the serious issues with C++: numerous code files in a project authored relatively recently that are dedicated to basic application plumbing such as memory allocation&#x2F;tracking and concurrency.&quot;<p>For some applications, manually tending to the basic plumbing is a necessity and not a burden. I.e high performance applications tend to be memory bouns.<p>I agree that C++ is not a right tool for every job and that as a language it has issues. But those issues are not about verbosity nor about manual memory management - the latter is rather a feature.