Things to consider about C++ -C++ is very large language and the standards committee works hard to make it larger every day. Every organization makes use of a

Things to consider about C++ -C++ is very large language and the standards committee works hard to make it larger every day. Every organization makes use of a subset of C++ but likely a different subset. C and Java are much smaller languages. As John Carmack says "Any abstraction that compiler will accept will eventually make it into a sufficiently large codebase" -Familiarity with an organization/codebase specific subset of C++ is necessary for a number of significant career paths in software development. Chromium and related technologies, Google's core infrastructure, Java runtime engines, game engine developement etc. I fundamentally don't think you should try to "Learn C++". If you are interested in career path the has C++ as a prerequisite. Learn the C++ style of a similar OSS project.