[richerlariviere]

I have a similar experience (doing PHP using notably CakePHP, Laravel and other vanilla php web apps). For me, I found the best bet was to learn Go. You won't have trouble learning it since the syntax is really simple. With C++ you have a lot of way to accomplish a task depending of the language version you're using so I found it harder to discover good practices. This is my point of view if we neglect all the "external factors" and we only consider personal preferences.