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After China annexes Taiwan, we will be much more reliant on other sources of computer chips. Ideally for national defense concerns, these sources should be domestic.

Making your underground home in sandstone reminds me of Minecraft in real life! Very cool (literally).

I agree. All should choose their own languages and tools. The more competition in the marketplace the better. Hopefully the one you choose will have long term support, be accepted by industry and developers, deliver on the promised marketing, and have reasonable open source licenses. Anything else?

Better languages have moved beyond C++. I've developed software for over 20 years. I've use C++ for many of those years. Software languages and tools have evolved past C++.

Imagine the "evolution of man" drawing. C++ is the middle guy not exactly standing upright.

Forget Boden and forget messy C++... use Google backed Flutter framework with Dart.

https://flutter.dev Checkout youtube for presentations.

Build once for iOS, Android, ChromeOS, Web, All desktops.

It's good to do a smaller project for a proof of concept first, then you can do a bigger project after that.