Distributed App - C++ with Python for Portability?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Roopan wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I am looking at developing an enterprise-grade distributed data
> sharing application - key requirements are productivity and platform
> portability.
> 
> Will it be sensible to use C++ for performance-critical sections and
> Python for all the glue logic.
> 
> Pls comment from your *experiences* how Python scales to large
> projects( > 200KLOC).
> I assume the C++/Python binding is fairly painless.

It depends. There are good wrappers out there, I personally prefer SIP.
However, a mixed language environment is always a PITA, especially for
distribution.

If you can, write everything in python. Identify bottlenecks, and if you
must, I suggest using C + ctypes for performance-critical code.

Obviously it's a matter of taste, but C++ is a beast, and getting it to work
seamless under varying compilers and OSes could be avoided using plain C.

Diez