[Const-me]

I agree about the high barrier to entry, but I disagree about the modern job market.

There’re huge areas of the software industry where performance matters to this day. Examples include videogames, content creation, video processing, engineering software, science related HPC, and now AI.

However, transitioning from web development to these areas gonna be hard. That software doesn’t run in web browsers, the code is either desktop apps, deep inside web backends, or supercomputer programs. And high-performance C++ is often not enough for them, depending on the area ideally you might also need GPU graphics and/or GPGPU compute.

I was lucky I have never worked on web apps. I know TCP/IP reasonably well, I have some general understanding of HTTP and HTML, but I’m totally clueless about the modern frontend technologies.