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> A nice language makes for shorter, more expressive code, sure, but that's like having a fast car that handles well; it still matters more where you're driving

> A nice language makes for shorter, more expressive code, sure, but that's like having a fast car that handles well; it still matters more where you're driving it. An f1 racer driving an f1 car will always beat another f1 racer driving a beetle. Plenty of killer apps use other languages- Instagram, Pinterest, Quora, and Youtube, for example. Google certainly wasn't written in php. Matter of fact is, facebook has spent millions of dollars trying to change languages, trying to make php behave, trying to make php faster. Wikipedia is nice, but I bet they'd be able to serve even more people if they based used a better language. HN code is probably nice. The HTML is just the surface of the architecture sites like these run upon.

PavlovsCat 13y ago
> An f1 racer driving an f1 car will always beat another f1 racer driving a beetle. Which is nice when you're having a race, but rather useless when you don't. > Plenty of killer apps use other languages- Instagram, Pinterest, Quora, and Youtube, for example. Google certainly wasn't written in php. Those are't apps in the sense that you can install and modify them, are they. The fact that youtube exists does nothing to drive Python adoption. Sure the same can be said for Wikipedia, but not for MediaWiki.
- deoxxa 13y ago
  There are... Just so many open source web applications that aren't written in PHP. So, so many.
  - felipellrocha 13y ago
    >> An f1 racer driving an f1 car will always beat another f1 racer driving a beetle. >Which is nice when you're having a race, but rather useless when you don't. I was driving a point using the analogy previously used. I think trying to write a php app is like trying to drive a beetle, when you could be using a transformer- It's a robot when you need it to be a robot, and it's a car when you need it to be a car. > Those are't apps in the sense that you can install and modify them, are they. >The fact that youtube exists does nothing to drive Python adoption. Sure the same can be said for Wikipedia, but not for MediaWiki. If you're gonna say that about youtube, the same should be said about Facebook. With python, at least we have Django, Pyramid, Bottle, Flask. All of which are good open-source platforms that allows you to quickly get a web project going(not just a wiki), and which do a lot to drive Python adoption. > There are... Just so many open source web applications that aren't written in PHP. So, so many. That was just an example of apps written in python. The comprehensive list is much, much larger (though I thought that was implied).

PavlovsCat 13y ago

> An f1 racer driving an f1 car will always beat another f1 racer driving a beetle. Which is nice when you're having a race, but rather useless when you don't. > Plenty of killer apps use other languages- Instagram, Pinterest, Quora, and Youtube, for example. Google certainly wasn't written in php. Those are't apps in the sense that you can install and modify them, are they. The fact that youtube exists does nothing to drive Python adoption. Sure the same can be said for Wikipedia, but not for MediaWiki.

deoxxa 13y ago
There are... Just so many open source web applications that aren't written in PHP. So, so many.
- felipellrocha 13y ago
  >> An f1 racer driving an f1 car will always beat another f1 racer driving a beetle. >Which is nice when you're having a race, but rather useless when you don't. I was driving a point using the analogy previously used. I think trying to write a php app is like trying to drive a beetle, when you could be using a transformer- It's a robot when you need it to be a robot, and it's a car when you need it to be a car. > Those are't apps in the sense that you can install and modify them, are they. >The fact that youtube exists does nothing to drive Python adoption. Sure the same can be said for Wikipedia, but not for MediaWiki. If you're gonna say that about youtube, the same should be said about Facebook. With python, at least we have Django, Pyramid, Bottle, Flask. All of which are good open-source platforms that allows you to quickly get a web project going(not just a wiki), and which do a lot to drive Python adoption. > There are... Just so many open source web applications that aren't written in PHP. So, so many. That was just an example of apps written in python. The comprehensive list is much, much larger (though I thought that was implied).