How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust?

Re:How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust? by ksec on Sunday September 29, 2019 @06:31AM (#21106255)

>The friction involved in getting those other technologies up and running was not trivial though.

That is only in relative terms in its time. For the past few years I keep thinking how the hell did Web Development went from Perl and CGI, arguably troublesome but understandable, to PHP which is ugly but easy to set up and running, to present days of... depending on which timeline you are, vagrant, VM, docker, k8s, Node.js... I would argue even Heroku with Ruby Rails isn't anywhere as easy as they were than the old days.

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Re:How come PHP seems so much faster than Rust? by unicornfinder on Sunday September 29, 2019 @06:42AM (#21106278)

Indeed. I am much happier developing with Ruby on Rails than I was with say, PHP, but I do find it hilarious how back in the day deployment just meant uploading a couple of PHP files to a server and how now I need a full CI pipeline.

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