Too Long; Didn't Read
On my previous team at Google, I spent 3 months writing C (working on the <a href="https://github.com/lkl/linux" target="_blank">Linux Kernel Library</a>), before we suddenly found ourselves needing C++ — we wanted to write a testing tool that could eliminate some OS-level noise that was affecting our performance measurements. I had never written any C++ before that, and my first week or so was pretty painful — I thought I could approach it by writing Java and chasing down compile errors until the code ran.