I work with C#, Java, Python Go and JS on backends a lot and no other language I worked with had such a simple but secure API.
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
u = User.objects.get(username='john')
u.set_password('new password')
u.save()
[0] - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/default/#c...
[1] - https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/1.10.x/django/c... and https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/1.10.x/django/c...
[2] - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/customizin...
[3] - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/passwords/...
[4] - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/passwords/...
Note that of course the password algorithms are typed, so this doesn't cause a problem in the corner case that a user's password is a sha1 hash of something else.
[0] - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/passwords/...
Still, a pragmatic answer and, given PHP started life as a web framework, fitting :).
func GenerateFromPassword(password []byte, cost int) ([]byte, error)
func CompareHashAndPassword(hashedPassword, password []byte) error