[KaiserPro]

> C and starting from the ground up with just a text editor and a compiler was quite eye opening.

yes, yes it is. Its fine for teaching, but my word when you're dropped into a large project with no context, it really really sucks. especially if someone is doing "clever" stuff (I'm looking at you research engineer writing "optimised" c++)

I was dropped into a Unity VR project with a C++ plugin than called out to a fancy backend. Unity is a bit of a arse to use because so many information is locked in videos.(thank fuck for LLMs) Everything being c# turned out to be really rather good. Especially if you have a working intellitune.

Dropping out to c++ on the back end was utterly frustrating. cryptic errors, random stack traces, lots of tears. All of that can get into the sea.