Because interesting stuff is written in C and C++, far more than any other language in existence right now. Compilers, games, all of the backends of the curren

Because interesting stuff is written in C and C++, far more than any other language in existence right now. Compilers, games, all of the backends of the current LLM revolution, control systems for interesting hardware. You would sabotage yourself if you choose not to learn how to use a possibly suboptimal tool that is an industry standard.