After learning Python, how easy should it be to transfer these skills to C#?

I started with C++ and I have to say that I never really liked the language. Python is easy to use in comparison — it has so many convenience methods and functions:

hexstring = "48656c6c6f20746865726521"
print(bytearray.fromhex(hexstring).decode())

This outputs:

Hello there!

The C++ equivalent is:

#include <stdio.h>
int main ()
{
    char hexdata[] = "48656c6c6f20746865726521";
    char bytedata[20]{};
    for(int j = 0; j < sizeof(hexdata) / 2; j++) {
        sscanf(hexdata + j * 2, "%02hhX", bytedata + j);
    }
    printf ("%s -> %s\n", hexdata, bytedata);
    return 0;
}

Any slight error in the "pointers" used in the above functions can overwrite completely irrelevant areas in memory, causing at best a corruption of variables. Some features of the very latest releases of C++ try to give you ways to avoid the worst of these problems, but I find that the "embedded" C++ versions that I have to use with microcontrollers tend to be the 2003 version of c++ at best.

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