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Don't want to get into a language merits argument, but how can you consider the most widely used language on the web niche?
by robryan 16y ago
Don't want to get into a language merits argument, but how can you consider the most widely used language on the web niche?
- frou_dh 16y agoPHP? Computing is more than web pages. I'm rooting for Clojure. Rich Hickey's presentations detailing his rationales make sense and are quite inspiring.
- rbanffy 16y agoAnd Clojure makes a lot of sense in many-core scenarios.
- newgame 16y agoWhat I meant by that is that PHP is admittedly used widely on the web but almost nonexistent in other "niches" like game programming, kernel programming, artificial intelligence, high performance computing etc. I'm thinking of the ecological meaning of the word niche not the meaning of "something small".
- tszming 16y agoWho can say Web is niche market? Also, I feel sick all the time when people telling me X is a new general purpose programming language that will solve all the problems. People should be more open minded, pick the right tool for the job.