Comment by hnlmorg

That’s not fully true though. There’s different types of complexity:

- project requirements

- requirements forced upon you due to how the business is structured

- libraries available for a particular language ecosystem

- paradigms / abstractions that a language is optimised for

- team experiences

Your argument is more akin to saying “all general purpose languages are equal” which I’m sure you’d agree is false. And likewise, complexity can and will manifest itself differently depending on language, problems being solved, and developer preferences for different styles of software development.

So yes, C++ complexity exists for a reason (though I’d personally argue that “reason” was due to “design by committee”). But that doesn’t mean that reason is directly applicable to the problems the LightPanda team are concerned about solving.