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My gut reaction is it would become more like ASP.NET, where many libraries cost money, but largely don't appear to be of any higher quality. And having to pay f
by rquantz 14y ago
My gut reaction is it would become more like ASP.NET, where many libraries cost money, but largely don't appear to be of any higher quality. And having to pay for components discourages students and newbies from learning. I think it's hard to argue that the open-source nature of the ruby community has been anything but good for adoption.
- danvoell 14y agoThat was my gut feeling as well although PHP seems to walk the line pretty well...but it doesn't seem to attract the most talented developers. I wasn't sure if that was because of deficiency's with the language or because of the saturation of components (many below par) for sale.
- whichdan 14y agoDo you really see all that many paid PHP components? I've run across very few. Most of PHP's quality code tends to be wrapped up in frameworks, and anyone new to programming or PHP in general has the unfortunate task of dealing with something like WordPress or mediocre/outdated tutorials without much guidance.