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You'll learn something, additional career opportunities (maybe) and improved prestige among the developer community (guaranteed) come to mind. It never hurts

You'll learn something, additional career opportunities (maybe) and improved prestige among the developer community (guaranteed) come to mind. It never hurts to have more than one language in your quiver. If you're looking for work and are having a hard time finding a PHP gig that suits your fancy, having some other language dialed to the point you can code in it professionally increases your odds of finding (and keeping) a job. Of course, I make a good living coding PHP for high end websites, and have been for years now. I just don't talk a whole lot about the language that pays the bills since invariably mentioning PHP is your primary language leads to a torrent of hot air from other developers who use "cooler" languages. Personally, I think it's all bullshit and if folks want to play "cool kid" with their language of choice, that's fine, but don't expect me to play along. Fun fact: the highest paid programmer I've met to date coded exclusively in COBOL. Think monster 1099 rates consulting on legacy mainframe code overhauls.

abhishekdelta 15y ago
You're like me. And yes I haven't found a single strong reason to move to python. Technically, is there anything good about Python as compared to PHP, other than being a 'cooler' language ?
- knieveltech 15y ago
  "Good" is a subjective term. Python's strengths have been enumerated ad infinitum by smart folks with a lot more experience with the language than I have. Personally, I generally prefer perl for the kind of tasks I'd typically consider python for, but that's more to do with my dislike of being told how to do things than any particular weakness in python. A lot of programmers really enjoy that additional structure and I have to admit that when it comes to reading someone else's source, Python typically makes for a more enjoyable experience than Perl. At the end of the day it's up to you to decide if Python has any value for you, and the only way you're going to find that out is to take it for a test drive.

abhishekdelta 15y ago

You're like me. And yes I haven't found a single strong reason to move to python. Technically, is there anything good about Python as compared to PHP, other than being a 'cooler' language ?

knieveltech 15y ago
"Good" is a subjective term. Python's strengths have been enumerated ad infinitum by smart folks with a lot more experience with the language than I have. Personally, I generally prefer perl for the kind of tasks I'd typically consider python for, but that's more to do with my dislike of being told how to do things than any particular weakness in python. A lot of programmers really enjoy that additional structure and I have to admit that when it comes to reading someone else's source, Python typically makes for a more enjoyable experience than Perl. At the end of the day it's up to you to decide if Python has any value for you, and the only way you're going to find that out is to take it for a test drive.