I have similar experiences. I was working with an embedded platform that uses C exclusively and I decided I wanted to use C++. I ran into mountains of hurdles

I have similar experiences. I was working with an embedded platform that uses C exclusively and I decided I wanted to use C++. I ran into mountains of hurdles, had to stare at disassembled code, tweak stuff, build a class library, etc. I never actually finished the project I was working on but doing all that stuff was the fun part.