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What I don't get about these "I get shit done with PHP so booya" posts is that people get shit done with better designed languages too. So where's the advantage
by stevencorona 14y ago
What I don't get about these "I get shit done with PHP so booya" posts is that people get shit done with better designed languages too. So where's the advantage?
IMO, PHP is only "magically productive" when you're starting out and banging out scripts over FTP on Shared Hosting with Apache/mod_php. Once you start running a "real app", with servers/deployment/nginx/php-fpm/frameworks, it requires the same amount of setup complexity as Rails/Django/etc.
Disclaimer: I write PHP for a living. Not a hater.
- mildweed 14y agoThe advantage is that this guy, who otherwise wouldn't have been able to accomplish his goals, did. He did because PHP was accessible. And till other languages are as dead-simple to accomplish small-to-medium tasks, PHP will continue to have fans such as the OP.
- RageKit 14y agoimho ruby is simpler than php.
- bennylope 14y agoEasier on eyes, more powerful? Surely. But can you just drop .erb files into a directory and turn on mod_ruby? That's the allure of PHP for so many.
- pbiggar 14y agoNo, but you can just run `rails new` and `git push heroku`, which is about as easy as using shared hosting.
- JOfferijns 14y agoAccessible != Simple
- RageKit 14y agoWell, php is more accessible than ruby. I don't care about the language war, i use whatever gets the things done
- 4qbomb 14y agoSays the guy that only knows ruby.
- RageKit 14y agoNope, i've done more php than ruby in my life, ad hominem is irrelevant you know ?