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Do you just want to pick it up as a learning opportunity, or are you trying to accomplish a goal? There’s probably ‘better’ (by better, I mean ‘easier’, in this context) langs (Python + numpy comes to mind) if your goal is to bang some ndarrays together and do ML-type stuff.

There’s gonna be a bit more headache at each step of the process (finding the right libraries, building your code, and learning the language) that might come easily to someone who uses it professionally or used it extensively in college.

That being said, I think learning C/C++ has value in A) the areas you mentioned where it’s used extensively (e.g. kernel, embedded, or HPC dev) and it’s a good lang to know if just to understand how computers work a bit better. This is purely ‘extra credit’ though IMO if you’re already a productive developer.