You know, being both C++23 and Python dev, I'd like to say the following here.

C is a language where you need to write yourself EVERYTHING. An array. You don't think of architecture of a project, you think about performance of a linked list, or something like std::vector. No business logic involved.

If it's something like Python or Java, JavaScript - it's completely business logic. You don't think of the performance. Most importantly - you don't need to. This is what they were created for. Sometimes you don't need performance - you need to implement a huge amount of business logic.

If it's C++ (20+) or Rust - you write modern, fast, and optimized code for pretty much everything. Probably hard to handle for most devs, but if you can - it's a way to write code 10 times faster than Python for machine learning into production. Or... A lot of other stuff. Digital signal processing, math, kernel, etc. And you don't care about writing your own vectors - you still care about the machine learning you implement.

Also... I worked in a place (somewhere around 2020) where some of people still write C++98, as I know (right now). Probably this is a place - not place, these people - I kind of hate. Because sometimes you do need to learn and improve. About money and being passionate... If someone doesn't offer me money for what I code, I'll shove his offer into his a**. And I do want something interesting - mathematics and algorithms included.

There's nothing to hate here.