I learned C++ first, have been using python for the last decade almost daily for various one off tasks. I like python, but if I had to build something that will be used even hundred of thousand times, I wouldn’t do it in python.
Anyway point being, despite me using for decades, I still yearn for C++.
I tried to use C++ in 1991 but the Borland Turbo C++ compiler was too buggy, so we used C instead. By 1996 C++ was “ready for primetime” on IBM-compatible PCs (yes, they still called them that, sometimes in 1996) and I switched - for 30 years.
I just spent 10 days building a proof of concept in Python, all the “common wisdom” says that was the fast way to get it done. Now that the prototype is done and the (initial) user feedback is addressed, I’m running a port to something better for lightweight, performant, easy deployment… sadly, C++ isn’t even on the radar for potential targets - top 3 candidates were Go, Rust and C#. I can’t abide the C# ecosystem, and Rust is just a little too rigid and immature for my tastes, so here we Go… anticipated to take 50% longer to port from Python than the Python took to develop in the first place… we shall see…
I learned C++ first, have been using python for the last decade almost daily for various one off tasks. I like python, but if I had to build something that will be used even hundred of thousand times, I wouldn’t do it in python.
Anyway point being, despite me using for decades, I still yearn for C++.
I tried to use C++ in 1991 but the Borland Turbo C++ compiler was too buggy, so we used C instead. By 1996 C++ was “ready for primetime” on IBM-compatible PCs (yes, they still called them that, sometimes in 1996) and I switched - for 30 years.
I just spent 10 days building a proof of concept in Python, all the “common wisdom” says that was the fast way to get it done. Now that the prototype is done and the (initial) user feedback is addressed, I’m running a port to something better for lightweight, performant, easy deployment… sadly, C++ isn’t even on the radar for potential targets - top 3 candidates were Go, Rust and C#. I can’t abide the C# ecosystem, and Rust is just a little too rigid and immature for my tastes, so here we Go… anticipated to take 50% longer to port from Python than the Python took to develop in the first place… we shall see…