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I'd wager that python's ease of expression is enough to beat C/C++'s strict static types as far as reducing bugs. I'm all about strict static types, but C++'s incarnation of them is surprisingly un-helpful. Several other languages(swift, haskell, etc) actually deliver on at least most of the promise of static typing, with nearly the ease of use of python, and nearly the runtime performance of C. Maybe the newest flavors of C++ are better, but the C++ I coded in 7ish years ago was a morass of boilerplate and foot shooting.