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Re:80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017) by consp on Friday March 22, 2019 @11:03AM (#19463180)
> ... But Python 2x / 3x as well.

That was one of the lowest effort upgrades I ever did for my company (backend services, no front end websites).

One of the other reasons Java is popular in big companies is the low effort it requires to find people who can work with it.

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Re:80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017) by fucking_tragedy on Friday March 22, 2019 @11:11AM (#19463282)
> That was one of the lowest effort upgrades I ever did for my company (backend services, no front end websites).

If your application does a lot of ASCII/unicode/raw string and byte manipulation, the transition from Python 2 to 3 can be very cumbersome.

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