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Is Python really that useless? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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I mean by useless is it's so slow you can't make games or even big projects for GUI, only you can do is AI/ML, Data Science, and basic stuff. I think Rust is better because of its speed and language capabilities?

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[+] [S] -7 points 3 months ago (9 children)

if people make alot of stuff with it its clearly not useless

You're correct, but we cannot avoid that it's limites to basic stuff, you can't make a facebook with pytho with good speed.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Originally Facebook was made with php...

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Unfortunately, I don't think that this is a useful argument because from what I understand, php is significantly faster than python.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Likely depends on what exactly you are doing

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    Sure, there will always be exceptions for certain use-cases, but my understanding is that PHP is faster that python in most cases. By the way, I didn't say that to put python down, but just to point out that php wasn't a good argument to defend python. Python itself is a good argument to defend python. See my parallel reply to yours, where I point out that Instagram and Threads both use python for their back-ends.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I mean I'm posting from PyLova (Python-based and it's been mostly good. I was truly skeptical of the viability of a Python-based Fediverse platform when PieFed first dropped, and I'm still skeptical of Python over Rust from a purely technical perspective, but it's been smooth sailing on this instance so far 🤷

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    you can’t make a facebook with pytho with good speed

    You may want to check your assumptions. Facebook's back-end was developed with PHP, probably because it was the most popular web back-end language when it was originally developed. However, two later Meta products, Instagram and Threads, used Python for their back-end. Source: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/09/07/culture/threads-inside-story-metas-newest-social-app/

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