Haha yeah sorry about that ;) To be honest I actually found it really interesting to be exposed to lower level concerns like thinking about memory allocation, runtime complexity, locking etc. after working in higher level languages throughout my career, but there’s no doubt that it can be a frustrating language at times.

One thing to watch out for is that the language has evolved a lot recently, but a lot of code samples are still written in an old style. You want to make sure you are using “modern” C++ (e.g. post C++11) features where possible e.g. smart pointers. It can be a bit confusing as some JUCE classes have been superseded by the C++ standard library, they date back to the days before “modern C++”... but I wouldn’t stress too much, using the JUCE versions is usually equally fine.