like let me read the source code of a open source software today To me, this is the most powerful reason to learn C and C++. If you know these languages, you

like let me read the source code of a open source software today To me, this is the most powerful reason to learn C and C++. If you know these languages, you can read the codebases of all the things you use and contribute to them (every browser in existence, every Unix in existence, most user space tools, many GUI tools, many low-level libraries that mobile apps use). Even if everybody stops writing C/C++ today, you'll still be using software written in C/C++ for decades. And of course, that's a joke -- there's still at least 10x more C/C++ being written every day in the world than any other language that compiles to native code (Rust, Go, etc.)