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There are two kinds of developments:

1. Application level: Typically manipulating lots of strings and data massaging. I prefer Java or python for this. The IDEs and eco-system just is so much faster to start with

2. Systems level: Typically a high-performance system like a DB manager or a fast processing library like a message producer etc. These things are time critical and need performance.

I used to really love C++ but I agree, it takes far too long just to start making things run. Sigh!