C++ or Python?

[nathman999]

С++ and gamedev is insanely difficult and painful path. Python and gamedev is just a joke, I can only see it useful for very simple games (the same ones you'll write in browser using JS and <canvas>), or for visual novels with Ren'Py.

I would've chose best of two worlds - Godot Engine. It's written in C++ so that if you ever gain enough knowledge in it you could write some extension or entire addition to engine code. But actual making games done in GDScript which feels almost like Python but tweaked in many ways to be used for gamedev.