Ofc mine was a joke and an exageration, let me deep dive a little more, depending on what you want to do.

You wrote you want to learn coding and that's great, but I would like to already make some distinction:

Are you more interested in:

1) a more "theoretical" approach, closer to how the computer handle variables, structures, even at "byte level".

2) a more project-focused approach where you want to learn while building something somewhat useful (a simple application / project).

I (strongly) suggest you approach 2) using python. If you prefer 1), C++ is probably the way.

Why I made the "hammering-genitals" joke?
C++ has, compared to python, a steep learning curve: running a simple "Hello Word" program is way harder in C/C++ compared to python. C++ is closer (compared to python) to computer language while python is more human friendly. Both language have a extremely wide documentationts, example and libraries online, but python often adopted by non-programmer also (excepcially in science): that means that you're more likelly to find less technical documentation and more "tutorial" and "how to" to start with, wich you may find easier while learning compared to something more technical. In C++ is also harder (compared to python) to code (and run) advanced project. Here an example in python of a program able to respond to an http request:

from flask import Flask

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/hello_world', methods=['GET'])
def hello_world():
    return "Hello, World!"

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run()

and to run the code you just need

python main.py

In C++ the same program looks like something like this:

#include <httplib.h>

int main() {
    httplib::Server svr;

    svr.Get("/hello_world", [](const httplib::Request &, httplib::Response &res) {
        res.set_content("Hello, World!", "text/plain");
    });

    svr.listen("0.0.0.0", 5000);

    return 0;
}

and before running you have to compile it.
Both requires to install some external libraries.

Try them both: you shold be able to verify them with your browser at http://localhost:5000/hello_world if running properly they will display the "Hello, World!" text. Then try to modify the code: try to add some params in the API query and show it back on browser. This will give you an idea how it's easier to set up a project in python and (more importanntly to me) how difficult is to modify it.