not everything has to be fast. not everything has to be efficient.
write in a language that sparks joy. don't want to figure out a clever algorithm? don't. your program is eating ram like a motherfucker but it gets the job done? that's okay
you don't understand recursion? don't use recursion. you don't understand how to manually allocate memory? don't use a language that makes you do that
there's time to learn all of that. or don't! people have worked hard to make it so you don't have to!
just make things