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copied!<p>Some Python limits :</p> <p><strong>- Python is slow.</strong> It can be improved in many ways (see other answers) but the bare bone cPython is 100 times slower that C/C++. </p> <p><em>This problem is getter more and more mitigated. With Numpy, Pypy and asyncio, most performance problems are not covered, and only very specific use cases are a bottleneck in Python anymore.</em></p> <p><strong>- Python is opened to anything.</strong> It's really hard to protect / obfuscate / limit Python code. </p> <p><strong>- Python is not hype.</strong> Unlike Ruby, there is no "cool wave" around Python, and it's still much harder to find a experienced Python coder, than, let's say, a Java or a PHP pro.</p> <p><strong>- After using Python, a lot of languages seems to be a pain to use.</strong> You'd think it's good, but believe me, not always. When you have to go Javascript after a Python project, your eyes are in tears for at least 3 days. Really hard to get started.</p> <p><strong>- It's harder to find web hosting than for popular solutions</strong>, such as PHP.</p> <p><strike><strong>- As a dynamic language, you don't have the very handy refactoring tools</strong> you could get with Java and Eclipse or C# and VS.</strike> </p> <p><strike><strong>- For the same reason, you can't rely on type checking as a safety net.</strong> This is why pythonistas tend to follow best practice and write unit tests more often than others.</strike> </p> <p><strike><strong>- It seems I just can't find an IDE with a decent code completion</strong>. PyDev, Gedit, Komodo, SPE, etc. just don't do it as good as it could be.</strike></p> <p><em>With Python 3 types hints and tools like PyCharm or Sublime Text+Anaconda, the situation has changed a lot.</em></p> <p><strong>- The best docs are still in English only.</strong> Some people don't deal well with it.</p> <p><strong>- You have to get use to the syntax.</strong> Not only you get spaces and line breaks instead of bracets, but you can forget about long lambdas, --i, and ternary operation.</p> <p>Now, to me, these are not reasons to not learn a tool that will make you produce more while having more fun. But maybe it's just me :-)</p> <p>Honestly, given that :</p> <ul> <li>C++ much harder to learn;</li> <li>You can do pretty much any thing you want with Python;</li> <li>You will get quicker result with Python in your projects.</li> </ul> <p>Unless you have professional issues involving C++, you'd better learn Python first, it's more motivating. You still can learn C++ later, it's a useful language for system programming, embedded devices and such.</p> <p>Don't try to learn both at the same times, multitasking rarely ends well.</p>

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