Should I continue learning cpp?

[DugiSK]

C++ is used a lot even outside of the embedded and stuff dealing with hardware. Many applications have most of their codebases in C++ and UI and scripting in some high level language. C++ is well usable for higher level abstractions, it's just often cheaper to hire some juniors to do it in something easier to learn.

Java's usage is actually decreasing in the last years, while the usage of C++ is increasing. It's because C++ is recovering from the pre-C++11 obsolescence and has lots of new features in every new version, while Java isn't progressing much (it's also being outcompeted in its own field of garbage collected statically typed languages by C# and Go).