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For those of you who are proponents of other web ecosystems, I’m curious what benefits you enjoy? What framework or language do you use and what makes it great?

• JodieBenitez 3y ago
  Starting from 1997, over the years I completely replaced PHP with Python. Apart from the language itself, which I like a lot for many reasons, some benefits that come to my mind: - Better libraries and frameworks overall - Better programmers overall, so more competent colleagues - Relevant in many fields outside web development - Allows to learn and use various paradigms, like async/multithread/multiproc... I do keep track of PHP improvements. In fact, I keep a small personal toy framework as a way to test its new features. Some of these were very much welcomed, like safe mode + runtime typing. But some of these were just catch-ups and none of these are compelling enough so that I would want to start a new project in PHP. Other ecosystem I'm interested in is Go, for other reasons.
• JonathanBeuys 3y ago
  I expect Python to be more stable over the coming decades than PHP. PHP had a lot of breaking changes in the last version. Changes which got pushed through despite being quite controversial. I fear that this trend will continue. Python had breaking changes in version 3, but at least those made the language better. PHP's recent changes were unnecessary and counterproductive.