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by genwin 5069 days ago
Already sold! For my first web 2.0 project I started with PHP and, being a bit disappointed with its performance, switched to Golang. Among other things I didn't want to have to do ifs with parentheses or use semicolons. Those seemed superfluous. Then I discovered Go, and it doesn't need those things and it's way faster. A lot more benefits too. Definitely a steeper learning curve than PHP initially but should be well worth the effort. I'll still use PHP or Python where they make more sense.