Are accessors (get and set functions) popular with C++ programmers?

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I’d argue that providing accessors are more important in C++ than in C#.

C++ has no builtin support for properties. In C# you can change a public field to a property mostly without changing the user code. In C++ this is harder.

For less typing you can implement trivial setters/getters as inline methods:

class Foo
{
public:
    const std::string& bar() const { return _bar; } 
    void bar(const std::string& bar) { _bar = bar; } 
private:
    std::string _bar;
};

And don’t forget that getters and setters are somewhat evil.

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