That is good to know. I have enjoyed writing C++ in the past - I like the clarity and forced obviousness of specifying whether you're talking about a variable v

That is good to know. I have enjoyed writing C++ in the past - I like the clarity and forced obviousness of specifying whether you're talking about a variable value or a pointer reference to it. When switching languages I always have to remember which types and assignment operations duplicate values on assignment vs just copy references. Maybe I'm just bad at it, but one of the big things that keeps me from writing more C and C++ is getting a dev environment setup, though I did find it a lot easier once I left the Windows Visual Studio ecosystem (ambiguous missing msvc103kd.dll error messages and the like) and drove gcc straight from the command line in a Unix environment.