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Re:Ask HN: python vs. php for web projects by johnny22 on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @04:33AM (#3129254)
PHP's acceptance at the shared hosting level ended up being a curse of a sort IMO. While it was easy to install applications, it was nearly impossible to know what libaries were installed. You could never rely on PEAR or anything else.

You can imagine what kind of solutions people will come up with when the standard library is anemic (compared to python) and it was difficult rely on certain "standard" 3rd party libraries.

Python folks rarely had to deal with the shared hosting issues (until very recently) and by virtue were freer in what they could install and how they could secure the system.

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Re:Ask HN: python vs. php for web projects by johnny22 on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @04:40AM (#3129267)
As far as actually choosing one or the other. You really can't go wrong with either. Modern PHP frameworks have done a great job in making it easy to write secure, flexible, and speedy applications.

As a long time PHP developer (but dabbler in many others) I really can't thank Rails enough for forcing the PHP community to really push PHP libraries/applications forward.

Cross pollination FTW

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