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Both, neither, does it really matter? In my experience any server-side programming language will be good enough for 99% of the websites out there. Once you get up to the size of a google, twitter, facebook, etc. then you can start worrying about which server-side language you should use. Otherwise just use whichever one you prefer.

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But the PHP looks like it's going to die. So how can you explain popularity of Python and JavaScript? PHP, Python and JavaScript; all of them can make same job? Any differences in performance?

Yes, they can all do the same job and for all practical purposes they don't have any difference in performance. Just pick whichever one you prefer. If you become the next google then you can start worrying about the performance of your server-side language.

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