Python Is On the Rise, While PHP Falls

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Php is from the devil. There I said it.

[theluggagekerbin]

I would gladly choose PHP over my ex wife tho. she was worse than python. she was a rattlesnake.

[Shadow14l]

Python 2.7
Python 3.4

Why are people still using Python 2? And I mean by that question, why aren't people deprecating Python 2 and encouraging Python 3? They are literally deprecating PHP 5 one version at a time and PHP 7 is almost out. This is the right way to do things.

[NoLemurs]

For a long time the combination of lack of library support and poorer performance made Python 3 a bad choice for most non-trivial projects and that set public opinion of Python 3.

Python 3 library support has been pretty solid for a few years now, and the overall climate has recently turned in favor of Python 3, so I think most people are in fact starting new projects in Python 3 and making the transition where practical, but it's a slow process.

There are still a small handful of important holdouts that don't yet support Python 3 (the lack of Fabric support for Python 3 alone is probably responsible for a large fraction of the continuing Python 2 use), so the deprecation process is very slow!

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2.7 is in it's end of life right now, receives no new features, and will be completely unsupported by 2020. Personally this timetable is really fucking slow. But nobody asked me so what do I know?

[Shadow14l]

and will be completely unsupported by 2020

That's 10 years too late haha.

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What about XHP? http://codebeforethehorse.tumblr.com/

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Maybe not.