C++ is a language designed for specific use cases. If you want a systems level language with extremely low cost abstractions and write high performance, or low

C++ is a language designed for specific use cases. If you want a systems level language with extremely low cost abstractions and write high performance, or low service-latency applications or applications that run on devices where you care about power consumption, memory utilized, etc, then C++ is one of the languages that you could consider. Its pretty bizarre to compare it to python or ruby or perl. Yes, you should use other languages if you can. C++ is used when you cant.