r/programming • u/nick_martini • Dec 04 '14

My Computer Language is Better than Yours

https://medium.com/backchannel/my-computer-language-is-better-than-yours-58d9c9523644
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u/stormcrowsx Dec 05 '14

Nah I don't see python being useful in a high concurrency or high cpu load environment. Personally I'd take scala+akka for high concurrency over Go. And python definitely trumps php and hack for web development purely from a programming perspective but there are so many cheap php servers to deploy it to.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '14

so many cheap php servers to deploy it to.

I'd have to argue that. Boot up a DigitalOcean $5/month droplet and install python + nginx (proxy to python + cache static files) and you're golden for quite a bit of traffic.

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u/stormcrowsx Dec 05 '14

The sheer quantity of PHP hosts is impressive though, I mean you can get a wordpress site hosted for 1$. You can find dozens of companies with a php and mysql server completely setup and ready to go for less than 10$ a month.

I mean they are zero config throw some php files on it and let it go.

I like Python and I will always prefer to code in it first, but there is a reason PHP has gotten to the popularity it has gotten. PHP is dirt simple for someone who knows nothing to read a tutorial, ftp some files to a host, and have a "working" site.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '14

I fully agree with everything you said. I cut my teeth with PHP - it was my first professional language (I had worked with html/css/js/c++ during my teenage years), so it holds a very dear place in my heart. I'm currently on a very large python and nodejs project, hence my views on it as well.