Python and C++ are two different programming language, python is dynamic type language with interpreter and C++ is static type language with compiler. Python is best, there is no comparison of C++ with Python, but at some place C++ is best then all other programming language. In this article, you will know the power and limitation of Python and C++ and comparison of Python with C++ and comparison C++ with Python.
First i will talk about python that is most intelligence and powerful language from all other programming languages. In scientific work (complex calculation) no other programming language can beat python. Python have very powerful library for scientific calculation and data analysis thats why it is used in Artificial intelligence and machine learning. Some scientific library are
1. Statistics
2. NumPy
3. Pandas
4. SciPy
5. Matplotlib
Python is most efficient programming language because of shorter code. for example it take one line of code to print hello world whereas C++ take 8 line of code to print hello world. You can do more things with less number of line of code make programmer life easy and make python most efficient or effective programming language.
Python is dynamic type language which means you don't need to add data type when declaring variable, it automatically assign datatype when you assign value to it for first time. One more important thing about python is that it has opposite concept about scope of variable as compared to other programming languages.
As you see in above picture, python variable scope started from local and ends to Build-in which make variable accessible outside the loop or if statement while C++ variable scope is opposite, it starts from Build-in and ends to local. Python is number one top trending or used language according to 2018 report of programming language graph.
Now lets talk about C++, C++ is also powerful programming language but it is learning curve and difficult to learn. C++ is frequently used in hardware programming because it provide manual memory management which make C++ very unique and valuable in Software market. C++ is the only one unique programming language which provides you Multi-Inheritance. C++ support both procedural and object oriented programming approach.
Advantage of Python over C++ :
- Python is used for web development (Django), Game development, Desktop app and mobile apps but C++ now-a-days only used for embedded and hardware programming
- Python is easy to learn while C++ is difficult to learn.
- Python can be used for rapid prototyping due to his small code while C++ can not be used for rapid prototyping.
- Python code structure does not have any curly brace, it works on indentation which make code easy to read and understand easily, C++ code structure contain curly braces and not depended on indentation, so c++ code may be formatted properly.
- Python support garbage collection whereas C++ does not support garbage collection.
- Python has amazing libraries which make scientific calculation, Artificial Intelligence ( Machine learning) and Data structure easy to implement but in C++ you have your own code for everything.
Advantage of C++ over Python :
- C++ provides powerful memory management as compare to python
- It is frequently used in hardware programming (arduino) as compared to python.
- C++ has faster execution time than python because C++ uses compiler and python uses interpreter
- Finding logical error in python is very difficult because python is dynamic typed language, so C++ is good in this case.
- Learning C++ will help you learning low level programing easy (assembly) because it is similar whereas python syntax is simple and very different from low level programming language.
Conclusion :
Python is great programming language for beginner, which really make your life easy and demand of python programming language is in top trending so you will get job easy in python because of high demand, but if you are going to do hardware or embedded programming in future then you must learn C++.