I'd say your first comment is very true and your second is very untrue. There will be sectors that will generally gravitate to c/c++, and a huge boatload that w

I'd say your first comment is very true and your second is very untrue. There will be sectors that will generally gravitate to c/c++, and a huge boatload that won't touch them with a ten foot pole. Corp languages are jvm based, .net based, js/ts, and maybe Go in some contexts now. None of the companies I've worked at in like 15 years has decided to create new c++ projects (clearly subjective view).