But people need to learn things like OO and memory anyway, why not do it with a language that teaches you both? It's not like the introduction to programming in

But people need to learn things like OO and memory anyway, why not do it with a language that teaches you both? It's not like the introduction to programming in Java would have final bufferbuffers everywhere to avoid garbage collection. C++, as bad as it is, teaches you both how memory works and how OO works.