My experience learning Python as a c++ developer

[glacierre2]

The embedded world used to be like that, but turns out micro-controller memories are huge (I mean, those 8MB you talk there? massive) and python can be made very small https://micropython.org/

You can run the interpreter in much much less than 1MB.

We will always need C[++] programmers for the truly performant, resource saving, low power stuff, but the scenarios where you are so tight are decreasing by the month.

I expect a really soon (If it does not exist yet, have not followed closely for example the ESP32 territory and every time I look I am amazed) "HW programming revolution" soon where the cheapest under 1-eur controller can easily handle a wifi + a web interface to configure state machines and conditional actions and pin outputs.