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by mkl95 1535 days ago
OP mentioned Python, and I agree that it's a cognitive overhead in that particular case, in the sense that it's an abstraction that can be avoided.

If you are using something like Java or C++ then it's easy to see the benefits (some C++ developers would disagree though, read https://accu.org/journals/overload/25/140/pamudurthy_2403/).