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If an existing language already has potential to replace PHP then I don't see why it wouldn't have already. What would/could you tweak that would get you there
by methodin 14y ago
If an existing language already has potential to replace PHP then I don't see why it wouldn't have already. What would/could you tweak that would get you there without fundamentally changing the language capabilities and syntax?
- SideburnsOfDoom 14y agoMr Atwood will have to answer that himself; he's the one who thinks he can do it. However the last line of my reply above is, I think, the best answer that your question will get until he shows us more. I suspect that he is being deliberately vague here; in other words there is an announcement coming at some later date and this is preliminary PR. That doesn't make it untrue though.
- Rust 14y agoSetup costs - PHP has a low barrier to entry in the sense that Apache's mod_php5 is a simple "a2enmod php5" command away. Even PHP-FPM with Nginx is only a few well-documented configuration options away from working. Currently, no other language can match that. They either require a VM running (Java, Ruby, etc.) or at least have a compile/build step (Python). UWSGI has a lot of promise, but until it's as easy to get configured as PHP-FPM, PHP is still way easier than everything else.