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Nobody uses PHP because it is beautiful... Creating your own version would make you loose the one true benefit of PHP: easy deployment using many available host
by nimrody 18y ago
Nobody uses PHP because it is beautiful... Creating your own version would make you loose the one true benefit of PHP: easy deployment using many available hosting services.
Unless, of course, you manage to make it popular as the original (just remember to maintain backward compatibility with thousands of libraries!)
- halo 18y agoYou could compile down to PHP. A similar approach has become popular with JavaScript.
- gord 18y agoNot a bad idea.. you could write in your lang of choice, presumably Ruby or Python, Scheme/lisp with a syntax / DSL you like.. then generate obfuscated/compressed PHP to run on the many cheap LAMP hosting platforms :]
- nimrody 18y agoIt works, but is more difficult to debug and, of course, to integrate with existing libraries. I don't think many have taken this path - GWT has not exactly taken the developer community by storm. Even minimal approaches (e.g. QT extending C++ syntax to deal with signals and slots) is considered unacceptable by many.