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You’ll never be a master because you are missing a lot of solutions, paradigms and techniques that are common in other languages and that you will never learn staying forever in the same language. Also I would like to see how you can become a master in web development using C++. You will always be castrated compared to someone else that has a much vaster experience with multiple languages and domains.

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I think I can support this notion with something a little more concrete. I program C++ (13 yrs) and I learned javascript and web dev 8 years ago. don't consider myself a master at either. But, having broad coverage over and aptitude in both of these realms has had a huge impact on my ability to make an impact in the real world, working at a robotics company that heavily leverages these technologies. There are large rifts between teams that form due to the relative scarcity of "cross-pollinated" contributors.

I think that Linus Torvalds is a master of operating system development, even though he's done all his work in C. And I'm pretty sure that he doesn't care about ever being a master in web development (just as most web developers are probably not interested in becoming kernel developers).

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