You mean for job interviews? Depending on the job, it can look good on your resume. Life is full of opportunity cost. That time you spend keeping up with C++ could just as easily be spent learning more design patterns or other things in pure python.
it probably also wouldn't hurt to know that ;, main and {} are part of python
eg: "import pdb;pdb.set_trace()" and while pointers, for the most part, aren't part of python, you'll eventually have to call native code from python and/or parse files with relative offsets when writing your own unpickle code.
Also, seriously? The big thing about switching to python from C is the syntax used for scoping?
Spend your main focus on whatever you initially learned, but honestly, just learn everything. JS and Python you can pretty much use at any job, JS being almost unavoidable. Everything else you learn will help you out in some way, or you will have enough base knowledge that if you are asked to do something you are not familiar with, you will have a leg up.
You see high demand for "Full stack developers" and if you just work in the industry for 10 years and are openly learning, you accidentally become one.
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u/pensiveChatter May 27 '22
Well, you're also saying goodbye to comprehensive compile time checks, proper post-mortem debugging, on demand debugger attaching, etc...