I struggle to see why one may want to use an interactive analysis toolkit via C++. Could anyone who has used ROOT enlighten me on this? I understand why you may write it in C++, but why would you want to invoke it with C++ for this sort of work?
All of our other code is C++. The data reconstruction framework writing ROOT files, the analysis frameworks doing stat analysis. The event data model is implemented in C++.
It has its rough edges, but you do get a lot of good synergy out of this setup for sure.
comments here have already mentioned couple horror stories of people accidentally/by inexperience doing a lot of work above the framework - if you can save that by not being slow, why not?
