I very much agree that it helps you understand the "programming stack" much more intimately. If that's what you are after, you'll also have the parts that are r

I very much agree that it helps you understand the "programming stack" much more intimately. If that's what you are after, you'll also have the parts that are relevant to you covered relatively quickly (compared to fully "knowing" C++ which would probably take at least a decade). I also agree with the other reply that the strongest learning experience is basically in the chronology of the language development. It takes running into a case where they are the best solution to really grasp "why include guards?", "why templates?", "why smart pointers?", "why iterators?" and so on, and you also gain a lot of appreciation for what compilers in other languages do for you behind the scenes. I also highly recommend https://godbolt.org/ https://godbolt.org/, which allows you to see what machine code is produced in the end. Seeing all the template magic getting distilled to clean asm is quite amazing.