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As a PHP developer slithering away from PHP at great speed on the back of Python, I am excited about its future. Yes, I would love to be able to use Python for
by modernerd 14y ago
As a PHP developer slithering away from PHP at great speed on the back of Python, I am excited about its future.
Yes, I would love to be able to use Python for games and mobile development too, but I do not expect to be able to use it for these things, just as I do not expect to be able to build web apps with Objective-C (even though some do).
For me, the power, elegance, philosophy, and community that sustain Python are enough to make it a worthwhile choice in a finite but important number of domains.
- bduerst 14y agoSame. I cut my teeth on PHP but have recently started working in Python and like it. PHP is nice because you can throw it on any LAMP stack and it's interpreted, but Python runs much smoother for heavy data lifting.