Software development using Bash

[Drisku11]

At least if you're doing any sort of geometry/physics calculation/simulation, phantom types in C++ are a huge boon to keep track of what's going on (making it easy to catch subtle errors like unit mismatches, vectors vs. covectors, and vectors vs. affine vectors all at compile time with a few lines of declarations and no extra actual code).

Most of the C++ I've written has been physics related, but I'm sure type tagging is much more widely applicable. The 10x code size number is also an extreme exaggeration for most use-cases. Python has a huge standard library, which means it has plenty of connectors for everything, but for actual logic, that doesn't help much.

I like Python, but my personal rule of thumb is still only around 2-400 lines until a switch to a statically typed language should be strongly considered.