I love C++, in a sort of dysfunctional way, and I've been programming in it for decades, but you'd have to have a screw loose to want to write your typical web application in C++.

There is a very good reason that Python is the most popular language in the world and I spend most of my time in Python for that reason: I am three to ten times as productive in generating features in Python.

The reason you use C++ is to get maximum performance out of your CPU, but very rarely in your web application is the CPU any form of bottleneck.

Fun article, have claps!