> but it is not something you would use for web api's, or a quick script, or UI's or any quick and dirty project Maybe not, but that's a function of available/

> but it is not something you would use for web api's, or a quick script, or UI's or any quick and dirty project Maybe not, but that's a function of available/standard/free libraries rather than the language itself. Personally I do use C++ for quick and dirty projects, but OTOH I've spent the last 10 years building libraries that make that convenient.