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Re:Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and... by pyuser583 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @11:37PM (#20571529)
Mindgeek uses PHP. I’m not sure how that meshes with “very skilled technologists.”

BTW, I’m a hardcore Python snob who will eventually watch the world dissolve into an oblivion of Golang, Elixir, and Scala.

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Re:Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and... by Nyandalized on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:55AM (#20572677)
You can write poor code in any language. Language itself has very little other meaning than how well it does it's job in the given context. PHP is great for fast development, has a lot of developers available, and comes with great tooling for the web.

Traditional downsides like poor threading and overall performance were/are overshadowed in that most webcalls are always I/O bound. PHP7 has made great strides on this though, especially on memory usage.

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