As far as the internet is concerned C++ is a staticly typed language (also some people who think its strongly typed), academically we know this is untrue but this isn’t about what’s actually correct it’s about the perception of safety or lack of, from the C++ compiler. Certainly C++ lets you break all the rules and use void* for all types throwing caution to the wind but that’s not really all that common in non ancient C code.
This particular rant is brought to you by a stack overflow response to a blatant flame war question "C++ slow, python fast? (in terms of development time)" one part of the large response caught my attention "That being said, static typing might be helpful if you're just making the move to larger programs. The compiler will catch some things that will only show up at run time with Python." While this is certainly true to an extent it’s really ignoring a very important reality. Inexperienced C++ programmers (the op clearly is) are wholly incapable of writing safe (read: compiler checked) C++. Remember that bit about all types as void*, rope, hanging and shooting one’s self? Well there are many shades of void* and most of them are used more frequently. at one of the more nitpicky ends is const correctness, it really is a pretty massive pain in the ass to maintain 100% const correctness but it’s got the odd habit of producing categorically better code. So why am I brining up const incorrectness and void* programming? Because that’s how people who are new (or old) to the language go about solving problems, with unsafe hacks to fill in their language feature knowledge gaps.
My point in all of this is that people who believe they are effectively relaying the strengths and weaknesses of languages almost never say anything useful at all. Argument generalization is not the friend of general purpose programming languages. So here comes the mother of all generalizations, in all things if you are bad there is no tool that will make you good, only tools that will make you less bad. There are however tools that can make you worse, so if you're a badie at programming no amount of thinking C++ is faster or more type safe will ever make your code faster or more type safe.
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