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Funny that people bother to do this when there's plenty of other languages that will handle the load without issues. Java Golang Rust Scala Maybe C# C The sem

• holtalanm 10y ago
  pretty sure Phoenix with Elixir can handle that load too.
  • tormeh 10y ago
    Elixir/Erlang is really slow. The strengths of Erlang/Elixir is easy multithreading, easy distributed computing (just as easy as local multithreading), easy fault tolerance and easy low latency. If you have to do something single threaded and performance critical then you do the same thing in Erlang/Elixir as you do in Python: FFI to native code.
    • holtalanm 10y ago
      I wasn't implying Elixir/Erlang was fast. My statement was that it could handle the load. Taken into account the fact that the language is built around concurrency, it would handle the load within multiple threads without a hitch.
• crdoconnor 10y ago
  By using C for the hot paths (e.g. HTTP parsing) and python for business logic you can get code that is both faster and easier to maintain than, say, Java.
  • weberc2 10y ago
    HTTP is not the bottleneck of anyone's application. Any interesting business logic will almost certainly cause Python to perform worse than Java, Go, etc. I'm also skeptical of the maintainability claim, because I write Python professionally.
  • throwawaydbfif 10y ago
    Writing web code in c isn't my idea of easy to maintain
    • crdoconnor 10y ago
      If you used this framework you wouldn't be maintaining web code in C.
    • rdtsc 10y ago
      That's why you write in Python and use this library
      • ww520 10y ago
        The Python part would slow the whole thing down again.
        • rdtsc 10y ago
          Anything not written in assembly would slow things down. But very few developers write web apps in assembly these days.