Is there a downside to declaring variables with auto in C++?

Question

It seems that auto was a fairly significant feature to be added in C++11 that seems to follow a lot of the newer languages. As with a language like Python, I ha

Answer 1

Keyword auto simply deduce the type from the return value. Therefore, it is not equivalent with a Python object, e.g.

# Python
a
a = 10       # OK
a = "10"     # OK
a = ClassA() # OK

// C++
auto a;      // Unable to deduce variable a
auto a = 10; // OK
a = "10";    // Value of const char* can't be assigned to int
a = ClassA{} // Value of ClassA can't be assigned to int
a = 10.0;    // OK, implicit casting warning

Since auto is deduced during compilation, it won't have any drawback at runtime whatsoever.