Web Application Frameworks: C++ vs Python

Question

I am familiar with both Python and C++ as a programmer. I was thinking of writing my own simple web application and I wanted to know which language would be more appropriate for

Answer 1

I would go with Wt because:

• You already know C++
• It has a nice layout system, so you don't need to know lots of HTML
• It is very well written and a pleasure to code in
• Your deployed apps will handle 50 times the load of the python app on less hardware (from experience with pylons apps, 10,000 times the load of a plone app :P)
• It has all the libraries that the guy in the first question says it doesn't and more
  • In built development webserver
  • Templating language
  • ORM
  • unit testing help
  • open-id and user+password authentication
  • A brilliant widget library
• Web 2.0 isn't an after thought; it wasn't designed on a Request+Response model like all the python frameworks (as far as I know), but on an event driven interactive model.
  • It uses WebSockets if available
  • Falls back to normal ajax gracefully if not
  • Falls back to http for browsers like linx
• It is more like coding a gui app than a web app, which is probably what you're used to
• It is statically typed and therefore less error prone. Does def delete(id): take an int or a string ?
• The unit tests (on my apps at least) take 10-100 times less time than my python app unit tests to run (including the compile time)
• It has a strong and friendly community. All my email list posts are answered in 0-3 days.