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Discussion on: Why Django For Backend Than PHP(Laravel)

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Andrei Dascalu

There's a lot to criticise PHP about, but none of that is in this article.

PHP is significantly faster than Python. A common reason why Python is not considered a great backend language is because it's one of the slowest mainstream languages.

Frameworks don't make an application faster, quite the opposite. Frameworks allow you to boos development speed and possibly code quality, but they come with cost of overhead.

Django is a great framework and Laravel is pretty nice too, but within their respective ecosystems, they are the slowest choices by far (comparing Laravel to Spiral or Ubiquity and Django to Flask).