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Because they wish to leverage PHP's ecosystem and Java requires more boilerplate code and tends to be more verbose.

• karlshea 9y ago
  Also nobody wants to set up Tomcat.
  • kuschku 9y ago
    That’s why people use Jetty.
    • handzhiev 9y ago
      Last time I checked most hosts were running Apache.
      • kuschku 9y ago
        Of course people run Apache or nginx in front of Jetty. No one exposes a single service directly.
        • karlshea 9y ago
          To be fair, that's what we're doing with PHP nowadays too. nginx in front of PHP-FPM.
• mschuster91 9y ago
  And Java is notorious for... 1) highly complex (and long!) build processes 2) memory issues: I have yet to see a reasonably complex Java application, both desktop and web, use a reasonable amount of RAM. Also, the fact that the JRE is long-running inevitably leads to memory leaks whereas in PHP every request and its environment get torn down at its end 3) overabstraction and literally hundred-lines-long stack traces which make debugging next to impossible. However, the trend seems to be heading this way in PHP too, so I don't know how long that advantage still holds.
  • karlshea 9y ago
    > overabstraction and literally hundred-lines-long stack traces which make debugging next to impossible. However, the trend seems to be heading this way in PHP too, so I don't know how long that advantage still holds. Definitely true. Laravel has this issue with the added bonus of magic methods and Facades all over the place.