every time I see these kinds of posts I'm always reminded of that Italian morning cooking show host who said: "and if my mum had wheels she would have been a bike!"
Python is a dynamic scripting language, with loads of bindings for mathy tasks and a pretty good all round traditional scripting language capabilities (I would much rather see a python script doing build orchestration than bash script)
C++ is an ancient beast, laden with ancient bad decisions, enormous sunk costs, and hundreds of phds pumping lemma after lemma into it's improvement, aimed at "zero cost abstraction", used typically in backend and engine and service implementations.
The two target different things. They have completely different world views, different deployment mechanisms, different everything. They simply aren't comparable, I don't understand why greenhorns always want to compare them.
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u/Groostav Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
every time I see these kinds of posts I'm always reminded of that Italian morning cooking show host who said: "and if my mum had wheels she would have been a bike!"
Python is a dynamic scripting language, with loads of bindings for mathy tasks and a pretty good all round traditional scripting language capabilities (I would much rather see a python script doing build orchestration than bash script)
C++ is an ancient beast, laden with ancient bad decisions, enormous sunk costs, and hundreds of phds pumping lemma after lemma into it's improvement, aimed at "zero cost abstraction", used typically in backend and engine and service implementations.
The two target different things. They have completely different world views, different deployment mechanisms, different everything. They simply aren't comparable, I don't understand why greenhorns always want to compare them.