Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 19th November 2007 14:47

On Monday 19 November 2007 12:26:27 Mark Pawelek wrote:
> I'm looking at this list of problems and it wouldn't encourage me to use
> PHP to develop a huge site.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#Criticism (or any other kind of site).

As has been pointed out, some of those are old issues. Some of them
are things that some people consider desirable features. The dog's
breakfast that is the function library is a dog's breakfast, tis true, but
that's the function library not the language.

> My preference would be for asp.net because it's what I do (but I doubt I'd
> use asp.net Ajax as it's a bit of a dog, but nowhere as fast), or if I had
> to use open source: Rails; despite what is said here about it. Rails just
> because it's such a rational framework. Why don't they make Rails code
> compile?, if they did, I probably would use it. No doubt PHP scales better
> than Rails but there's an issue of how nice it is to use a rationally
> designed framework; almost nothing could bring me to code in PHP; only
> death threats would get me to code in Perl.

[here we go again]

PHP is a language; Rails is a framework written in Ruby. ASP.net has a whole
host of languages. You are not comparing like with like.