real estate, it's what china has been doing for a while
Ideology over functionality
imagine actually thinking this is a bad thing, i'd take ideology over functionality anytime possible
english is not american, it's the language of the world
using spaces: google, microsoft, apple
using tabs: linux, gnu
don't know if you are a beginner to programming in general or c/c++ specifically but it's better to start with c before c++, it's simpler and clearer (than c++) to a beginner
then
coutsyntax is absolutely horrible and very misleading, use c'sprintfor, if you can, use fmt, it's super fast and even simpler than c'sprintf