I have not done a "desktop" program in 25+ years and never using C++ (or C), since then I'm mostly a web developer (PHP, Elixir, JS, Kotlin etc). I'm currently

I have not done a "desktop" program in 25+ years and never using C++ (or C), since then I'm mostly a web developer (PHP, Elixir, JS, Kotlin etc). I'm currently doing a C++ audio plugin with the Juce framework. This website has been a good resource, alongside https://www.learncpp.com https://www.learncpp.com But I was actually close to give up before using those two things: - https://github.com/nlohmann/json https://github.com/nlohmann/json : my plugin use a json api backend and the Juce json implementation is atrocious (apparently because of being born with a previous C++ version), but this library is GREAT. - ChatGPT 4. I'm not sure I would have "succeeded" without it, at least not in a reasonable time frame. ChatGPT 3.5 is slow and does not give good results for my use case but 4 is impressive. And I use in a very dumb way, just posing question in the web UI. I probably could have it directly in MSVC? Also I must say, for all its flaws, I have a renewed appreciation for doing UI on the web ;)