On a related note: it took 8 weeks of struggle coding daily to convert to C++. I would go home each day sweating and exhausted. At the end, a switch turned and the code would come out with much less effort.
Yeah, yeah, your favorite language is much easier than C++, I'm sure. But maybe it took something similar to get 'fluent'?
When learning functional programming (F#), there was a distinct point where I suddenly "got" functions and so many things suddenly made sense. I can actually remember the day and place where it snapped. (Perhaps if I had studied FP in school instead of just learning FP on the side after being conditioned by Basic and C, it would have been more natural.)
Yeah, yeah, your favorite language is much easier than C++, I'm sure. But maybe it took something similar to get 'fluent'?