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Boot camps aren't "up or date skills" but to the extent that 24 year olds are getting hired off them would still support your point.

Why do you assume young people don't learn C++ to work on games? They do to work on web servers.

The AAA in AAA games refers to media content, not the game engine. Game programers are a trivial fraction of the C/C++ industry.

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24 year olds aren't getting Senior or Mid-Level Dev salaries. They know the new hotness and are cheap -- that's good enough.