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I will argue that for mid to large applications, scripting languages are just the entry point to your entire application, as the author says, the glue. I would
by mirkules 16y ago
I will argue that for mid to large applications, scripting languages are just the entry point to your entire application, as the author says, the glue. I would run a "real" application server underneath for the middle tier (i.e. to handle the business logic), and have the scripts handle the presentation layer only.
- Udo 16y ago> I would run a "real" application server underneath for the middle tier (i.e. to handle the business logic), and have the scripts handle the presentation layer only. Yeah, I believe you would. But not Facebook, Wordpress, or even large parts of the Google Apps landscape. I'm not judging either side, mind you. Do you by chance primarily develop business applications? Because business app people often favor this special type of multi-tiered design that typically has a Java app server behind everything.
- sbov 16y agoFacebook could probably go in either camp. I'm sure they write some of their business logic in php, but they made Thrift for a reason. In particular, isn't their chat written in Erlang and feed stuff written in c++? I've read that they even use Java for some things.