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Thread: Future of PHP? Ruby? Python?

Started 2 months, 2 weeks ago by r00t
PHP is incredibly popular and has negligible barrier to entry (free, easy, interpreted, huge community support, tons of tools & frameworks). However, even the creator of PHP has conceded that PHP is not ideal for backend. [link] The creator of Drupal credits the accessibility of PHP (perhaps in the FOSS community) for Drupals widespread adoption. [link] As momentum is gained with things...
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Pickley replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago
PHP has just been around for longer on the Web. While Ruby and Python weren't actually made to be used on the web really. Once more open source projects similar to Wordpress etc start using other languages, we may see more adoption of those. -- Devato - My Site My Gallery

Pickley replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I've been playing with Rails but cannot get the hang of it so much, Prefer CodeIgniter currently. Both are easy though. -- Devato - My Site My Gallery

r00t replied 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Python has been around forever, but you're right, Ruby and Python weren't -intended- for the web. The accessibility thing is truly PHP's greatest advantage. Rails and Django are means to roll your own content management system. I bet as more PHP developers splinter off into other languages, and the quality of community-supported projects like Wordpress starts to falter, Ruby and Python ...

 

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Future of PHP? Ruby? Python?
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I've been playing with Rails but cannot get the hang of it so much, Prefer CodeIgniter currently. Both are easy though. -- Devato - My Site My Gallery
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Future of PHP? Ruby? Python?
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Python has been around forever, but you're right, Ruby and Python weren't -intended- for the web. The accessibility thing is truly PHP's greatest advantage. Rails and Django are means to roll your own content management system. I bet as more PHP developers splinter off into other languages, and the quality of community-supported projects like Wordpress starts to falter, Ruby and Python programming will boom. Right...

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