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Pros of PHP
- Large community950
- Open source817
- Easy deployment765
- Great frameworks487
- The best glue on the web387
- Continual improvements235
- Good old web185
- Web foundation145
- Community packages135
- Tool support125
- Used by wordpress35
- Excellent documentation34
- Used by Facebook29
- Because of Symfony23
- Dynamic Language21
- Cheap hosting17
- Easy to learn16
- Awesome Language and easy to implement14
- Very powerful web language14
- Fast development14
- Composer13
- Because of Laravel12
- Flexibility, syntax, extensibility12
- Easiest deployment9
- Readable Code8
- Fast8
- Most of the web uses it7
- Fastestest Time to Version 1.0 Deployments7
- Worst popularity quality ratio7
- Short development lead times7
- Faster then ever6
- Open source and large community5
- Simple, flexible yet Scalable5
- Open source and great framework4
- Large community, easy setup, easy deployment, framework4
- I have no choice :(4
- Has the best ecommerce(Magento,Prestashop,Opencart,etc)4
- Is like one zip of air4
- Easy to use and learn4
- Cheap to own4
- Easy to learn, a big community, lot of frameworks4
- Great developer experience4
- Used by STOMT2
- Hard not to use2
- Safe the planet2
- Fault tolerance2
- Walk away2
- Great flexibility. From fast prototyping to large apps2
- Interpreted at the run time2
- FFI2
- Secure1
- Bando1
- It can get you a lamborghini1
- Simplesaml1
- Secure0
Pros of Rust
- Guaranteed memory safety143
- Fast130
- Open source87
- Minimal runtime75
- Pattern matching70
- Type inference63
- Algebraic data types56
- Concurrent56
- Efficient C bindings46
- Practical43
- Best advances in languages in 20 years37
- Safe, fast, easy + friendly community32
- Fix for C/C++30
- Stablity25
- Zero-cost abstractions24
- Closures23
- Great community20
- Extensive compiler checks20
- No NULL type18
- Async/await18
- Completely cross platform: Windows, Linux, Android15
- No Garbage Collection15
- Great documentations14
- High-performance14
- Super fast12
- Generics12
- High performance12
- Safety no runtime crashes11
- Guaranteed thread data race safety11
- Fearless concurrency11
- Macros11
- Compiler can generate Webassembly10
- Helpful compiler10
- Easy Deployment9
- RLS provides great IDE support9
- Prevents data races9
- Real multithreading8
- Painless dependency management8
- Good package management7
- Support on Other Languages5
Pros of Swift
- Ios259
- Elegant180
- Not Objective-C126
- Backed by apple107
- Type inference93
- Generics61
- Playgrounds54
- Semicolon free49
- OSX38
- Tuples offer compound variables36
- Clean Syntax24
- Easy to learn24
- Open Source22
- Beautiful Code21
- Functional20
- Dynamic12
- Linux12
- Protocol-oriented programming11
- Promotes safe, readable code10
- No S-l-o-w JVM9
- Explicit optionals8
- Storyboard designer7
- Optionals6
- Type safety6
- Super addicting language, great people, open, elegant5
- Best UI concept5
- Its friendly4
- Highly Readable codes4
- Fail-safe4
- Powerful4
- Faster and looks better4
- Swift is faster than Objective-C4
- Feels like a better C++4
- Easy to learn and work3
- Much more fun3
- Protocol extensions3
- Native3
- Its fun and damn fast3
- Strong Type safety3
- Easy to Maintain3
- Protocol as type2
- All Cons C# and Java Swift Already has2
- Esay2
- MacOS2
- Type Safe2
- Protocol oriented programming2
- Can interface with C easily1
- Actually don't have to own a mac1
- Free from Memory Leak1
- Swift is easier to understand for non-iOS developers.1
- Numbers with underbar1
- Optional chain1
- Great for Multi-Threaded Programming1
- Runs Python 8 times faster1
- Objec1
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Cons of PHP
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Cons of Swift
Cons of PHP
- So easy to learn, good practices are hard to find22
- Inconsistent API16
- Fragmented community8
- Not secure6
- No routing system3
- Hard to debug3
- Old2
Cons of Rust
- Hard to learn26
- Ownership learning curve23
- Unfriendly, verbose syntax11
- Variable shadowing4
- High size of builded executable4
- Many type operations make it difficult to follow4
- No jobs3
- Use it only for timeoass not in production1
Cons of Swift
- Must own a mac5
- Memory leaks are not uncommon2
- Very irritatingly picky about things that’s1
- Complicated process for exporting modules1
- Its classes compile to roughly 300 lines of assembly1
- Is a lot more effort than lua to make simple functions1
- Overly complex options makes it easy to create bad code0
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What is PHP?
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
What is Rust?
Rust is a systems programming language that combines strong compile-time correctness guarantees with fast performance. It improves upon the ideas of other systems languages like C++ by providing guaranteed memory safety (no crashes, no data races) and complete control over the lifecycle of memory.
What is Swift?
Writing code is interactive and fun, the syntax is concise yet expressive, and apps run lightning-fast. Swift is ready for your next iOS and OS X project — or for addition into your current app — because Swift code works side-by-side with Objective-C.
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