I've seen this kind of misconception before and it should be corrected. Your premise is wrong, there are other reasons to pick C++ besides performance: * it's

I've seen this kind of misconception before and it should be corrected. Your premise is wrong, there are other reasons to pick C++ besides performance: * it's platform-native on the major platforms and many others * it's an international standard and has excellent backwards compatibility. i.e: it's not controlled by some corporation and it's very unlikely that a 2v3 Python-style fiasco would happen. * it has a huge ecosystem. The only comparable ones are Java and maybe C#, but while there's overlap, each ecosystem has its focus. Java's is focused on the back-end and enterprise development. * it's a flexible and powerful language * it's basically the default option in certain domains