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C++ got a much stricter guiding philosophy than the Python zen. This is it: "you should never pay for the features you do not use". The entire language is built

• vardump 10y ago
  Right, but pretty often the payment is not obvious. For example, it's often shocking how many non-obvious wasteful copies are being made behind the scenes as output to relatively innocent looking code. That's of course "programmer's fault", not denying that. So you end up paying for things you didn't intend to use, but used anyways because of some small detail. Sometimes I feel like the only way to write good C++ is to keep looking at the disassembler output... C++ is my dayjob.