I often find that you need to read a page-long faq (which is an improvement over reading mailing list flame wars over boost vs raw stl vs library-du-jour) to figure out the "right" way to do anything in C++. Now knowing my way around it reasonably well, it's not an issue for me anymore, but not a newcomer.
It's so easy to do it the wrong way, and there's so many examples of badly written or non-idiomatic C++ code strewn all over the internet that a newbie is bound to fall into that trap. This is the same kind of problem I (used to) see with PHP, that it can be fine if you do it all the "right way" and don't do "stupid stuff" but it takes a while to learn what those are. What happens in reality is they google "how to do x", copy paste the code, and modify. Who cares if it's idiomatic or anything.
It's so easy to do it the wrong way, and there's so many examples of badly written or non-idiomatic C++ code strewn all over the internet that a newbie is bound to fall into that trap. This is the same kind of problem I (used to) see with PHP, that it can be fine if you do it all the "right way" and don't do "stupid stuff" but it takes a while to learn what those are. What happens in reality is they google "how to do x", copy paste the code, and modify. Who cares if it's idiomatic or anything.