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So we meet again... I suggest for your project you make your game a fully standalone *server* vs a door. If it's a door, you run into issues with those that run retro systems (can't run Java), dropfile and transfer of connection information (e.g. DOOR32.SYS requires a shared file descriptor that breaks when people serve a board over SSH quite often), etc. Instead, let boards "bridge" to your server. This is how BBS door game servers work. There are multiple schemes (which I can provide more detail on if you decide this path) of transferring a user from a board to your game server. More on reddit.com

I would approach it differently, what TYPE OF COMPUTING are you interested in, then once you decide learn the best language for that platform. In Software development, the language is really based on what type of computing platform your're coding for. for example. Os/Kenerl : C/C++ Server side : C/C++, GoLang,Python Web front: JavaScript + popular frameworks Web backend- JavaScript (nodejs) PHP, C# Mobile: Android (Java or Kotlin), IoS (Swift) Data science/ ML: Python , R IoT /Embedded: C/C++ Corporate systems: Java, C# Sure learning a generalist language like Python is a good start but it's not going to help you if you want to code mobile apps , for that you need to learn Swift | Java | Kotlin. Second it's really hard to predict 15 years out what the technology may be like. Here again I would focus on what areas of computing are likely to be popular in the future. More on reddit.com

Just saved your post, this gave me that second wind to continue to learn C++, thanks OP.

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