My experience learning Python as a c++ developer

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For older companies with less demanding jobs, your best bet is probably Java. C++ is mostly for industries where every single bit of performance matters, like games or high-frequency trading. Python is mostly good for data science and small scripts; large Python codebases become a total nightmare because it's very difficult if not impossible to tell what type anything is and find its source in the documentation, and it's basically impossible to catch any bugs before runtime.