You should be learning a bit more with each loop though.

Even banging your head on the wall against something eventually gets you somewhere.

Rewrite one of my old C projects in it and compare the difficulty, ease of understanding the code, any issues/boons in documenting it, etc.

I’m bad at math and struggled heavily through calc 2 and barely passed with a D+ but had little issue with data structures and algorithms (except when the algorithms were written in math notation, but still got through it after being explained in a logical set of steps instead).

hope that gets stripped out in codium

Sounds like you need some Cinnamon