Write web apps in Python?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Gilles Ganault a écrit :
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:41:56 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers
> <bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid> wrote:
>> The PHP execution model (mostly based on CGI FWIW) tends to be a bit 
>> unpractical for non-trivial applications since you have to rebuild the 
>> whole world for each and any incoming request, while with a long-running 
>> process, you load all your libs, parse your config etc only once.
> 
> Apart from the ease of having the application run at all times, I'd be
> curious to read about an application that was written in PHP and then
> a long-running process and see if performance improved.

I'm not sure there's a way to do such a thing in PHP, at least in a way 
that wouldn't make the whole benchmark totally meaningless. And trying 
to compare a PHP app with a similar non-PHP would also be (mostly) 
meaningless.

Now there are a couple Symfony / Django benchmarks around (Symfony being 
probably the closest thing to Django in the PHP world). They are just as 
reliable as most benchmarks (that is, at best a rough indicator once you 
understand what's effectively being measured), but it seems that they 
confirm the empirical evidence that PHP is not well suited for such 
"heavy" OO frameworks.

> 
> Regardless, Python has an easier syntax, so AFAIC, that's already a
> good enough reason to use this to write web apps.

Indeed !-)