"I've always felt writing in C++ requires much more skill, and that alone is a very rewarding experience. I can tune things like arena allocators and make strin

"I've always felt writing in C++ requires much more skill, and that alone is a very rewarding experience. I can tune things like arena allocators and make string operations insanely fast, things I agree most problems simply don't require, but still, its a craft that I feel very proud of conquering, and every day you learn something new." I worked with C++ for years, and I while I agree with the "every day you learn something new part", I also think that most employers and projects don't benefit all that much from time spent playing with your toy of choice, so to speak. That time that you spend learning about C++ each day, could go into learning about security, machine learning, graphics pipelines and a lot of other things. I switched to a job where I mostly had to use C or Python, and I no longer obsess over my hammer. Unlike my C++-job, we don't go to C++ conferences and spend meeting after meeting talking about the language we're using. We attend conferences on crypto, machine learning, intrusion detection, and other things that could be useful to us. I agree that there is a time and place for C++, but I feel so much more productive pulling that tool out of my toolbox AFTER I've identified a hot region of my code, and then using it where absolutely necessary.