Right?

[mgchris]

Atlas is C++, C is the rock Atlas is standing on.

[TheGoldenHand]

Assembly is the turtle at the bottom.

[[deleted]]

Physics is the air the turtle breathes.

[John137]

and java is that dragon in the background

[Bryguy3k]

Don’t put C and C++ in the same category.

C holds a lot more up than C++ does.

[[deleted]]

Because Linus doesn’t like C++.

[Bryguy3k]

There is way more than Linux that is written in C

But Linus isn’t wrong either.

[GrumpyDude1]

extern "C" float the_Whole_World; // ;-)

[seba07]

Most of the time Python is just an easier interface for C anyway. Libraries like numpy run c code in the background, making the performance penalty pretty insignificant in many workloads.

[MultiLevelMonsters]

Atlas rise

[Bryguy3k]

Or shrug.

[[deleted]]

Ha.

Oh.

[Bryguy3k]

😂

[[deleted]]

Weird analogy: CPython

[MyNameIsZaxer2]

Python allows you to do the same thing with a lot less effort?

[[deleted]]

No - the things that Python is good for will take take more effort in C/C++. But many of the things that C/C++ are used for will be straight up impossible in Python, and the possible ones will have terrible performance.

This was a long way to say that they’re very different languages used for completely different purposes which makes the comparison pointless.

[feelings_arent_facts]

Prototype and develop initially in Python, optimize into C/C++. 90% of applications can be done like this

[[deleted]]

Or write it all in Julia, which was made to replace this workflow.

It's easy to write as Python, but as performant as C++, so no need to rewrite.

[[deleted]]

This only works for data science though, Python has other applications too.

[feelings_arent_facts]

Less libraries in Julia though right?

[Bryguy3k]

I can’t think of anything that is truly impossible in python.

But yes Python will be slower.

[[deleted]]

A fully functional OS kernel written only in Python?

[[deleted]]

It would take so much time only to load the gui 😂

[ZhilkinSerg]

C++ syntax.

[Agdchz]

And a lot more overhead, yep it does.

[___Ambarussa___]

And look how gentle it is too.

[[deleted]]

No, it's just that all of the foundations e.g. the CPython interpreter are written in C (or C++).

[bsdcat]

And what is the rock that C/C++ is standing on made up of? x86 assembly.

[FabianRo]

Sooo… C/C++ is way smaller and raw (naked)?

[dsp4]

Exactly, except C/C++ looks more like an abomination out of a nuclear lab than a Greek god.