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  • Python is versatile
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My main experience using C++ was because I got stuck modifying an app written with Qt Creator, an utterly insane cross-platform framework that used (still uses? I dunno, only people in Finland ever used it in the first place) C++ for the under-the-hood processing and Javascript for the UI. For good measure, the application developers had modified all the C++ stuff with macros to the point where it was barely even recognizable as C++. Fortunately, it mattered not at all because the app's customers were ISPs who just wanted a Skype clone so they could say they had one even though none of their customers ever used the damn thing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Oh, trust me, Qt is still primarily C++. It's effectively a massive set of C++ libraries.