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Python as a language is smaller even if the library is larger.

You can do many many things in Python without needing to know much other than working with dictionaries.

In C++, doing a sort or a string search is an ordeal. So much of common programming requires so much cognitive overload.

C++ is not an easy language. Not by a long shot.



I absolutely agree, but this comment referred to the library size as a major burden.


Ah fair. Though I do think the issue they meant is perhaps the C++‘s STL is not fleshed out enough to be as ergonomic and useful as Python.

Python’s standard library is not without its faults but I’m always so frustrated that the C++ STL stops just short of providing many things, and when it does, it requires writing out so much verbiage.




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