Why Use C++ and Not Python

[iestyn]

when I first started learning programming I thought I could do anything with python, as time went on I slowly realised that there’s many languages for a reason

[kirarevcrow]

Because Python is not the right tool for the task. Remember, programming languages are just tools.

[jacobfk]

A very respectful answer. No arrogance.

[MikeWmusic]

Cos Python is basically the duplo of programming

[superscatboy]

What was the context of this question? What was being programmed at the time?

[mattmurphy]

Python’s mqueue implementation put 48 bytes of garbage on my queue. My C implementation was perfect on the first try

[cheaterman]

Good answer - do it using the tool you're proficient with, and if it can also teach a few things, why the heck not. Your autorelease container was neat, if a bit verbose hehe (but this is C++ after all) - and just as you said, in Python you'd pretty much just call the same APIs either fully runtime with ctypes, either making is faster (and spicier hehe) with cffi or Cython.

[AbstractType]

Rephrased question: why C++ and not the scripting language built on c/c++ libs 😂

[maxborn]

Should go a step ahead than calling python as "wrapping around C++". Python is interpretive language, and by its nature extremely slow vs the compiled language. Calling Python-wrappers for C functions is way slower than just calling the corresponding C function in C.

But Python definitely has its use-case: it's really great for brainstorming sessions, I don't have to fret over segmentation faults, data-typing, function templates, some obscure system error while thinking about the blueprints for a project. Python has kind of cornered the Deep Learning "market" as well, although Caffe for C/C++ might be a worthy match for Tensorflow in Python (I am not finding much encouraging details for using Tensorflow in C/C++).

Python got a thriving community, almost any field of engineering/physics/chemistry (maybe even biology) you can think of, has a still alive module available for easy use.

[SecondLight]

I've already done this in python, wrote a whole ass api, and its slow. Slow slow slow.

[BeansEnjoyer]

doing these types of system level things on a system with first class support also helps when youre stuck on something.

using C# in a windows environment for windows system work is way easier

[Принуждениекмиру-ьц]

where did you get std::print? which compiler do you use?

[lobotomy-victim]

ehh the winapi is very high level, you’re not really interacting that closely to os, but besides that python is unreadable and slow garbage

[ColinRichardson]

Makes me laugh when people call C a low level language..
I mean, it relatively *is* nowadays, but only if you are thinking relatively.

[jonweinraub]

Python is hot garbage. For a shit language that was invented before most of its end users were born it’s weird how colleges teach computer science in it. I had to make my own vector, list, iterator and so on in data structures. In C++ of course. I think it was a mistake to step away from that. Why not just use QBasic 😂

[pixelcatcher]

is there a Better alternativ to ImGui?