Ah, I guess I was responding to this paragraph of your message
> But more to the point, people claim it's somehow harder in C++ to learn programming so either I'm super smart or they're wrong.
TBH I consider the type systems of most imperative languages to be extremely similar. The only difference worth discussing is enumerators which can hold data. C++ doesn't have these, not sure if C# has them now. Rust has them.
I'll create a new comment under yours for a more specific discussion.
