4 ms·

Not quick as in execution speed, quick as in time from idea in head to working code.

• astrodust 10y ago
  You really can't beat the speed of a static page. For anything with a server-side component, PHP might be fast if you know a lot about how to get PHP up and running properly. Node, as a counter-example, runs on Windows and POSIX systems indifferently, and with very little effort can be a self-hosted web server for development that can be deployed to production almost effortlessly. If you have a favorite hosting provider which better supports some tools than others, certain things will be faster, but that's because of preference and familiarity rather than any factual differences.
  • regularfry 10y ago
    I think you're overestimating how much effort it is to get a PHP dev or deploy environment up and running. This isn't preference and familiarity, it's 20 years more knocking the corners off to lower the barrier to entry.
    • astrodust 10y ago
      There's zero work involved in getting a static page up and running. There's minimal effort in getting Node up and running, and I'd put it forward as the new "path of least resistance" especially because of the heroic work done to make Node run properly on Windows. Getting WAMP or whatever configured and installed, or loading the PHP module into Apache or Nginx and getting that working is a giant pain in the ass compared to either of those two things, even if you've done it a dozen times before.
      • regularfry 10y ago
        `apt-get install php` and you're done. Seriously. Xampp is trivial too.