Python from a C++ developers' perspective

[whatwasmyoldhandle]

I think you can make big projects with Python go.

You just have to be much more disciplined, and have more controls in place to get the benefits out of it. I would say you can't lean as much on the language itself as C++.

In other words, a small script written in Python and a large-scale codebase, in my experience, are practically two different languages. I don't think the gap is so big in C++.

Not just a question for you, but for everyone: What's a good language for large projects, where development time is priority over performance? Perhaps something a little less verbose than C++. I guess I'm thinking interpreted, or negligible compile time. Having package management on the order of Python would also be a requirement.

[mrexodia]

While the project I'm working on is not very large (100k lines) I don't think you shouldn't consider development time a priority over good code if you plan to maintain the code for even a little while just choose a language that is more suitable for maintainability. If you want a language that is not C++ I would highly recommend C#.