2 why bottle over php?

october 1, 2020

Bottle is a Python framework for server-side web development.

It's useful because it lets you reuse code for HTML, supports simple HTML templating, and is Python, which is a fun scripting language to use with tons of libraries.

PHP is an old server language. It's very verbose, doesn't natively support templating, has extreme differences between versions which makes it confusing to research the fastest approaches, and its documentation is confusing. At least, amusingly, each documentation page has an open comment section underneath it, filled with conflicting and frustrated opinions, some dating back to when I was a toddler.

It's still good to practice with, since it's a widely used web development language, and I feel like understanding it brings me closer to the PHP petsites of the mid-2000s which I dearly love.