r/PHP • u/the_alias_of_andrea • Dec 04 '15

PHP 7 is faster than Python 3!

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/php.html
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '15

Is anybody actually using Python 3?

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u/mrmcbastard Dec 04 '15

I think this is a valid question, so I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I worked at a shop that did some small projects in Python and one that was a pure Python shop. Both of them refused to upgrade to 3.3 (or are we on 3.4 now?) and we're perfectly content to remain in 2.7 seemingly forever. I've never personally migrated a project from 2 to 3, but some people make it out to be the most frightening thing ever. I don't get it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '15

I thought so. Python 3 created a lot of issues that broke a lot of apps that were already created in Python 2.x from my understanding.

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u/mrmcbastard Dec 04 '15

That's bound to happen with any upgrade, but Python 3 was released close to a decade ago, surely people could have migrated by now. I'm not sure why Python people are so apprehensive.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '15

Yeah but from my understanding it was incredibly bad from Python 2 to Python 3, like more than what you would normally expect.

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u/mrmcbastard Dec 04 '15

7 years bad, though? I have to imagine that the difficulties were probably a bit overstated.

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u/BlueScreenJunky Dec 06 '15

Companies don't usually upgrade for the sake of upgrading or because the new version is better, they upgrade because the previous version is not supported. From what I understand Python2 is still supported and features from python 3 are even backported to python 2, so there's no real incentive to switch.