I would not be so sure on performance vs Python: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/php-python3.html https://benchmarksgame-tea

I would not be so sure on performance vs Python: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/php-python3.html https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... I haven't run the tests myself in 2021, but I used to do PHP for many years, and there were significant performance improvements done in PHP which I remember took it way ahead of Python at the time.