True but I still manage to go down some rabbit holes in C++.
I could use the older STL iterators, but nooo I use a range, with a lambda. Returning a tuple with tie and pair and some more stuff from the latest C++1x standard.
And in Linux userland, I just want to check a pid but I invent some smart locking system to ensure I never get a false positive or negative.
In C++ the main actual rabbit hole of useless abstraction begetting useless abstraction is premature generalization from what you actually need to templates that can be used with types you don't need, which then proceed to kick you with implicit assumptions, type traits, unforeseen subtle type distinctions like those that come up in Haskell.
Other kinds of "stuff from the latest C++1x standard" tend to consist of relatively harmless novel ways to express something, usually not intrinsically complex and, when inappropriate, causing only localized damage (typically puzzling syntax or slightly wrong declarations with no impact on unedited code parts, even in the same class or function).
I could use the older STL iterators, but nooo I use a range, with a lambda. Returning a tuple with tie and pair and some more stuff from the latest C++1x standard.
And in Linux userland, I just want to check a pid but I invent some smart locking system to ensure I never get a false positive or negative.