>Can you provide an example where static typing slows you down compared to dynamic typing?
I spend an annoying amount of time trying to compare/add/multiply... different types in C++ like time, durations, dates, ints, floats in my day job.
> And I can't imagine this extra operation being a significant drag.
If you have an open source C++ web framework that you think is comparable in features to python django or ruby on rails, I would be very interested as I do want the performance improvements but all the ones I have looked at look like way more work to implement what I want than using django/RoR.
I spend an annoying amount of time trying to compare/add/multiply... different types in C++ like time, durations, dates, ints, floats in my day job.
> And I can't imagine this extra operation being a significant drag.
If you have an open source C++ web framework that you think is comparable in features to python django or ruby on rails, I would be very interested as I do want the performance improvements but all the ones I have looked at look like way more work to implement what I want than using django/RoR.