I disagree as well. I was working at YouTube during the rewrite from python to c++ and a lot of people at Google looked at the problem to avoid a full rewrite o

I disagree as well. I was working at YouTube during the rewrite from python to c++ and a lot of people at Google looked at the problem to avoid a full rewrite of a major product. We still ended up doing it regardless of the pain of using Swig to wrap C++ code. Not missing that at all.