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Does anyone who knows and uses Ruby or Python and PHP have any thoughts on whether its worth me revisiting PHP? (I currently use Ruby exclusively, after I left
by ashleyw 18y ago
Does anyone who knows and uses Ruby or Python and PHP have any thoughts on whether its worth me revisiting PHP? (I currently use Ruby exclusively, after I left PHP when I was pretty much a total amateur.)
It does look cool with all these new features, I'm just not sure if it'd be a slight waste of my time, since I already know a language which works well for the web…?
- jonhohle 18y agoUp until a few months ago I was entrenched in PHP. Now I don't do any PHP, and nothing in 5.3 makes it enticing to go back. They've fixed some things (late static binding), added some things (lambda's, namespaces), but these are already things that Ruby has and was designed for.
- jamroom 18y agoIf you are creating a product that will be installed by your customers on their own web hosting accounts, PHP is a no brainer due to it's large install base, and you'll want to be sure your product works with PHP 5.3. If you are simply picking a language for your own internal use, go with what you like and know.