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Python and Ruby aren't riddled with security holes. Python and Ruby offer quite sensible language features. Python and Ruby have relatively clean, comprehensibl

Python and Ruby aren't riddled with security holes. Python and Ruby offer quite sensible language features. Python and Ruby have relatively clean, comprehensible standard libraries. Python and Ruby make it easy for developers to rapidly create complex systems, while still retaining a high degree of safety and security. Python and Ruby are getting better with age, rather than stagnating or gaining features in an ugly, tacked-on fashion. Python and Ruby generally have more experienced, professional communities behind them. Simply put, they don't suffer from the many inherent problems that PHP suffers from. That means they won't catch anywhere near as much flak. And your description of anyone pointing out PHP's flaws as being a "hipster" or doing it because it's a "new cool hip thing to do" is absurd. Many of us who speak out the loudest against PHP have been doing so since the late 1990s, and many of us are now well over 50 years old. We're about as far from "hipsters" as you can get, in just about every respect.

Killswitch 13y ago
http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-10210/product_id-18230/version_id-92056/Python-Python-2.7.html http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-10210... http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-7252/product_id-12215/version_id-60323/Ruby-lang-Ruby-1.8.7.html http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-7252/... Nope, no vulnerabilities in Ruby or Python, just PHP. Because PHP sucks, Ruby and Python and Erlang and Go and Java and C++ and blah blah blah blah blah are superior languages to PHP, blah blah blah. Insert beating a dead horse image here.
- danbruc 13y ago
  Python 15 in 5 years Ruby 36 in 7 years PHP 341 in 14 years No one claimed that other languages are flawless. Besides that the biggest problem are not vulnerabilities in the languages; the biggest problem are vulnerabilities in products build using the languages and PHP makes it especially hard to write correct code because of its many quirks making it (almost) impossible to be aware of all edge and corner cases.

Killswitch 13y ago

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-10210/product_id-18230/version_id-92056/Python-Python-2.7.html http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-10210... http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-7252/product_id-12215/version_id-60323/Ruby-lang-Ruby-1.8.7.html http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-7252/... Nope, no vulnerabilities in Ruby or Python, just PHP. Because PHP sucks, Ruby and Python and Erlang and Go and Java and C++ and blah blah blah blah blah are superior languages to PHP, blah blah blah. Insert beating a dead horse image here.

danbruc 13y ago
Python 15 in 5 years Ruby 36 in 7 years PHP 341 in 14 years No one claimed that other languages are flawless. Besides that the biggest problem are not vulnerabilities in the languages; the biggest problem are vulnerabilities in products build using the languages and PHP makes it especially hard to write correct code because of its many quirks making it (almost) impossible to be aware of all edge and corner cases.