C++ vs C#. What is more suitable for my tasks?

Question

C++ / C#

I am visually impaired. Completely blind. I use a computer and other technologies with the help of screen readers.
Interested in programming. No longer as a profession, but as a hobby.
Interested in applied programming. Development of desktop applications and sound games for the blind.
We have a lot of such games, there are even shooters. Everything is built on 3D sound.
They mostly use C++/C#. There is even an engine for such games, it is developed in C ++.
Now they want to drag them to the Olympics. Yes, and I choose the language for my tasks.
Interested in which language suits me best?
Worked with both. In C# I am familiar with the basics, OOP, in C++ I cannot understand pointers, I am not yet familiar with OOP.
This is what I need:
Development of application software exclusively under Windows, client-server applications with a server under Linux.
Games, they require libraries to work with the keyboard, 3D sound. All this is in C++ and C#.
I want to work without using low-level tools. I don't know if this is possible in C++. So far, only pointers are frightening, but I'm sure that they can be understood.
In general, what can anyone say?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

To understand pointers, you need to know a low-level programming language: assembler. It is the assembler that can more accurately explain how pointers work. Since pointers came from the world of low-level programming. But you wrote strangely: when you write about C#, you write that you are familiar with OOP, and when you write about C++, you are already unfamiliar with OOP. OOP is just an approach to programming. And this approach is common for every programming language. If you want to write games in C#, then Unity is for that. And for most applications, C# will suffice. C++ is good for performing productive tasks. Sometimes in practice a mixed approach is used: what is required for high performance is written in C++, and everything else is written in C#. Quite normal practice. In programming, it is important to be able to work with algorithms, think over the whole mechanism of work, understand how everything works. With a bad algorithm in any programming language, the program will work poorly.

Answer 2

Pointers are not as scary as they seem, they just require some discipline.
But C# is more suitable for you, precisely because many low-level operations have already been written for you.
If the speed of execution is critical at the Olympiad, then C ++ is still better

Answer 3

There is a very big difference between C++ and C#, C++ has a wider range of applications, it is a language that has "full control over the hardware", and C# already works in the same way as Java. Although, without unnecessary hemorrhoids, write in C ++ and then it will be much easier to port to other operating systems. Or write in C#, it will be to your advantage, since the code is written more quickly, which means you can already move on to the code testing phase, which saves time.