C++ is not a "poorly designed language", it is a language with a number of difficult corners imposed by legacy compatibility with (originally) C, and later with its own multiple decades of use. Features that have serendipitously been free of such constraints are generally extremely well designed. It is of course possible, easy even, to design a language ex novo that has no such legacy baggage, yet none is remotely as compelling as C++ for a wide swathe of tasks, more eloquent testimony to the quality of C++ than any amount of Internet squabbling.