Re: development time, you must have a pretty fast compiler. One big argument in favor of dynamic languages is the shortened edit/compile/test cycle; it's down t

Re: development time, you must have a pretty fast compiler. One big argument in favor of dynamic languages is the shortened edit/compile/test cycle; it's down to edit/test. Re: speed, I think the prevailing wisdom is "write the damn thing in Python and if it's too slow, we'll profile it and write the tiny bit that needs to be fast in C or C++". You still have to do this with C++ -- native code does not magically make your application bottleneck-free.