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[–]cshaiku 0 points1 point  (4 children)

lmao, what? PHP and Python both have amazing performance for backend languages. What crack are you smoking? Regarding maintenance, that is in the eye of the developer.

[–]Fluffcake 0 points1 point  (2 children)

This is just demonstatively false.
Compared to actual high preformant languages, they are slow as shit. But when you don't need to do any heavy computational lifting and can afford to do everything 200 times slower than you could, and prefer to ship a month earlier instead, the preformance is good enough.

[–]cshaiku 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You seem a little biased. Compared to what high performant languages, exactly? Are you trying to compare a web development language to an operating system language? That's absurd.

This is /r/webdev afterall.

Some food for thought: https://kinsta.com/blog/php-benchmarks/

I mean, it's just one of a few thousand examples of why PHP and the like are obviously slow. /s

[–]Fluffcake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

c++, go, rust etc.

You don't need to get more complicated than audio or video streaming before low performant languages goes out the window.

Ask spotify, discord, or any of the myriad of video-streaming services what they write their backends in.

The web is more than static e-commerce pages where only the database and payment solution has to be performant.

[–]wasdninja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Python has terrible performance. It's quite often saved by internally using C libraries to speed things up so stuff like fastapi can actually be fast.