The author didn't really complain about too much specifically, just generally complaining about the language. I guess it's hard to say whether or not the situation is better in the latest versions of C++ (though as someone who uses C++ an awful lot I would assert that it has gotten much much better).
That said, I think the complaint maybe comes down to coding style and architecture of the thing they're coding. They seem to make a joke we'd maybe more closely associate with Java than C++ these days. Also Microsoft's C++ style is awful. So if that's the only experience you have with C++ I would be hard-pressed to blame you for hating it.
Ya this is a whiny garbage post that looks like something I would have written when I was 18 had I been forced to use C++ for a school project (and probably could have been, given its year of publication). I'm not sure it adds anything to human discourse. It certainly isn't applicable to modern C++, or even the modern zeitgeist of pre-modern C++.
You can still do all those things in modern C++ in addition to all the stuff that get added every 4 years. The only thing that has improved dramatically is the tooling: compilers, static/dynamic analyzers.
> And, as I said before, every C++ programmer feels bound by some mystic promise to use every damn element of the language on every project.
I wonder how things have progressed from a security/stability standpoint - my OS definitely crashes a lot less, I'm guessing because there is less C in it now...
