I started my career as a C++ developer. At the time, it was more or less considered the ‘default’ choice for software development. PERL was the new kid on the block for web application development. Python was just a scripting language pretending to be object-orientated and with a quirky way to delimit code blocks using indentation. JavaScript was brand spanking new, uncool, but the idea of running code in a browser was at least somewhat interesting.