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A couple reasons come to mind: - PHP might be the most practical choice for some of these companies. The founder or lead tech might be most proficient in PHP f
by coderdude 14y ago
A couple reasons come to mind:
- PHP might be the most practical choice for some of these companies. The founder or lead tech might be most proficient in PHP for real-world applications (even if he adores Python or Ruby).
- PHP might be the language that everyone on the team knows so they choose it to keep everyone equally involved in the production of the site.
- The people commenting on HN aren't necessarily people who start companies (truer now than it ever was).
Edit: Also, it might be the case that some of these servers purposely lie about what language is used on the backend to thwart script kiddies.
- phillmv 14y agoRuby on Rails Token =~ Rails 3/whenever the csrf token was introduced? (2.3ish?)
- coderdude 14y agoYeah, they're splitting hairs on the Ruby count (not sure why). But I'm assuming that at least the number of PHP installs is somewhat accurate which is still a good number of the sites. Once you add the two Ruby counts together it does win out over PHP (which is more in line with what people would expect from SV types).
- whatusername 14y agoAt least 10 of those 31 PHP sites are likely for the CMS Frontend. (Wordpress and Drupal)