There are two kinds of developments: 1. Application level: Typically manipulating lots of strings and data massaging. I prefer Java or python for this. The IDE

There are two kinds of developments: 1. Application level: Typically manipulating lots of strings and data massaging. I prefer Java or python for this. The IDEs and eco-system just is so much faster to start with 2. Systems level: Typically a high-performance system like a DB manager or a fast processing library like a message producer etc. These things are time critical and need performance. I used to really love C++ but I agree, it takes far too long just to start making things run. Sigh!