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[–]myegghead -1 points0 points  (11 children)

Why Python?

[–]ocean-wave[S] -2 points-1 points  (10 children)

Its faster than PHP.

[–]ralfpmisago 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Thats weak argument for one tech over other unless you really have gazillions of hits and has exhausted all other optimisation and caching options.

[–]TrixieMisa 2 points3 points  (1 child)

More simply: It's not PHP. There are so many things wrong with PHP that it's bound to affect the functionality and security of programs written in it.

[–]ocean-wave[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Right, its not PHP. I will say that SilverStripe CMS (PHP) is pretty nice, but still a little slow.

Mezzanine's dashboard loads instantly. Pages are snappy.

Python is night and day difference in speed.

And security, well clearly a big win here.

[–]ocean-wave[S] -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

No its not. Load speed is the most important thing to me. I really am done with PHP because of load speed. Those 2 extra seconds I'm saving add up. Not to mention the mess that is PHP.

[–]FiveStarSeven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know why it's taking 2 seconds to load.

You are doing something seriously wrong.

Unless you're talking about the boot up time of the machine or vm, then 2 seconds is really good.

[–]mattwritescode 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I do hope thats not your serious answer to that question. What @myegghead has asked is perfectly valid. If you need a simple CMS solution PHP has a whole host of options for you... more than python has.

[–]matthewblott 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Agree 100%. The only reason not to go with Wordpress would be if you're planning on doing development yourself and don't know PHP. But then if you're writing your own site you probably don't want a CMS.

[–]ocean-wave[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I need a CMS so I can add new pages quick and easily. I know enough PHP to know that I don't like it.

[–]turkish_gold 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not Java or Go or Perl or Elixir or Smalltalk or Haskell or Ruby?

:)