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by yani 2949 days ago
For what use case is PHP better than other languages?
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Rapid development of performant get/post web interfaces. Ruby is nice but runs a lot slower. Python is better in a general-purpose sense, but every file will have a preamble of includes for things that are just built-in to PHP.

As a general purpose language, PHP is weak. As a web-form DSL, it's great!