Personally I'd say that unless you're going into game dev where C++ is still widely used (or you want to work on legacy codebases that are in C++), learn Rust i

Personally I'd say that unless you're going into game dev where C++ is still widely used (or you want to work on legacy codebases that are in C++), learn Rust instead. Or even learn C rather than C++. C++ has a huge gap between the modern and proper way to do things and the old footgun-riddled way of doing things, and it's just a mess.