The places where you must use C++ are a dwindling niche. Large niches in their own right, certainly, but niches. Once you leave those niches there is an explosi

The places where you must use C++ are a dwindling niche. Large niches in their own right, certainly, but niches. Once you leave those niches there is an explosion of possibilities. I'm coming up on year 25 of my career and I haven't touched C++ since school, if one can indeed call what is covered in school C++. Especially nowadays. And C and Java I've barely touched. I certainly couldn't put them on my resume with a straight face. I say this because you kind of sound like you're making some sort of plaintive plea, as if C++ is somehow the only viable option in the world and who could even dream of stepping outside of it? And I'm telling you that while that may be true in an ever-decreasing set of niches, it is not true in general anymore and hasn't been for a long time.