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> The flexibility benefit modern Python gives is probably more like 1000x If true, that would mean that a 1 year C++ project could be done in 2 hours, and a 10

• mlthoughts2018 8y ago
  Development time is not the same as flexibility, particularly because, as others have pointed out in comments, the lack of flexibility in C++ usually manifests itself by the choice to exclude huge swaths of feature sets. I see this Python advantage meaning in C++ I have to give up more possibilities if I want to restrict myself to a subset whose complexity can be reasonably managed. Just think of how often people even suggest C++ without exceptions. This is a mark of inflexibility that people view the complexity cost of these techniques as too high, and so must write code that intentionally cannot use them (and so you have to contort even more to imitate their intended behaviors). This is a much more important thing than mere developer time, which is a shallow way to look at it.