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There are other reasons to use C++ besides performance, and other reasons to not use Python besides performance.
by pklausler 10y ago
There are other reasons to use C++ besides performance, and other reasons to not use Python besides performance.
- khedoros1 10y agoSure, but it's one of the biggest go/no-go reasons. Preexisting codebase, available libraries suitable to the problem domain, platform limitations, desire to obfuscate code, developer experience, desire for speed of development, and whatever else I'm forgetting would be other reasons to choose a particular set of technologies. But the comment I was responding to was about performance implications, and whether or not development was "close to the metal", so my response was too (using C++ and Python as examples of lower-abstraction and higher-abstraction languages).
- harry8 10y agoThere are other reasons that are at least 9 times in 10 (probably more) completely dominated by a performance justification on occasions where people actually have the choice rather than having it made for them.