I'm an experienced Python developer who also dabbles with some applications written in C++. In my experience Python is much faster when it comes to development

I'm an experienced Python developer who also dabbles with some applications written in C++. In my experience Python is much faster when it comes to development speed but it's way more demanding when it comes to optimization. When you write C++, you kind of cheat because even code with high computational complexity is pretty fast. Whereas the equivalent code in Python will be awfully slow. So, while it's true that Python requires less development time, this statement can't be used generally. I have spent hours optimizing Python code when in C++ I would have just moved on to my next task.