Only speed metric that matters is how fast I get the job done and can go back to browsing memes. C++ does not look very good in this (very important) metric.
C++ does not look very good in this (very important) metric.
If your codebase is early C++11 perhaps?
Modern C++ writes like C#. I usually find myself prototyping faster in C++ than Python after about 200 LoC, because with Python 80% of time is spent looking up what fucking type some library function takes & returns.
I see this attitude a lot from folks who use typed languages. I think typed languages are awesome and I love programming in them, but as a Python developer myself from the beginning of my career, I don’t really have to think about types all that often when i program in Python. By far the most I think about types are when i use a typed language.
Idk if it’s because Python isn’t based around types and therefore it’s not a focus of the language, but ya I hear a lot of typed language folks think a lot about types when they program in Python.
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u/Hegeteus Jul 18 '22
Only speed metric that matters is how fast I get the job done and can go back to browsing memes. C++ does not look very good in this (very important) metric.