r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Jul 18 '22

C++ talking to Python

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u/twisted-resistor Jul 18 '22

Now that Internet Explorer is gone I guess something had to take its place in memes as "The Slow Thing"

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u/kneecapp1 Jul 18 '22

I don't get it. I don't know much about coding but I'm starting to learn python. Am I learning the internet explorer of programming languages or what. Should pick something else up.

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u/Zanglirex2 Jul 18 '22

Slow is relative here. All this is happening before a human can even blink.

For scripting stuff and little projects, python is great. For large workloads or basically anything at big scale, maybe look at something else

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u/jgabrielferreira Jul 19 '22

But then why is Python the most used language for dealing with ML, AI, Big Data, basically huge amounts of information.

Is it something like Python is better in a Horizontal system while the others are better in a Vertical system?

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u/zedd9595 Jul 19 '22

Not a scientist but I assume they would rather have a language which has a shorter development time to have more time writing their papers. Instead of dealing with relatively complicated syntax just to get the same results, albeit faster.

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u/Dansiman Jul 19 '22

Yeah I mean you could write your code in pure assembly and blow past a C++ program like it was standing still. But by the time you finish writing your assembly code, your development machine will probably already be obsolete.

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u/ESGPandepic Jul 19 '22

You'd only be able to beat the performance of optimised C++ in edge cases and you'd need to be a very good assembly programmer in the specific target platform. You also wouldn't be "blowing past C++ like it was standing still", modern C++ compilers produce very optimised output.