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PHP doesn't get mentioned, because it isn't interesting. I've done a lot of PHP work, and still do. But there's not a lot of NEW going on in the PHP world. T
by tannerburson 17y ago
PHP doesn't get mentioned, because it isn't interesting. I've done a lot of PHP work, and still do. But there's not a lot of NEW going on in the PHP world. Their latest earth shattering move is namespaces. The only interesting thing about PHP's namespace support is how awful it is.
Almost all of the cool concurrency, natural language, efficiency, functional programming, and what-have-you research and development, is going on outside of the PHP community. Those are topics that HN collectively finds interesting, so PHP gets left out.
That said, just because PHP itself isn't particularly interesting, doesn't mean people don't build interesting things using it, and doesn't mean you shouldn't use it.
- indiejade 17y agothere's not a lot of NEW going on in the PHP world There was an article on slashdot yesterday about PHP6. Here's one from IBM: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-future/ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-... Not a whole lot of new, but something. I think PHP gets ignored sometimes because it is an older language, not the new and trendy thing.
- nuclear_eclipse 17y ago> * I think PHP gets ignored sometimes because it is an older language...* For what it's worth, Python is four years older than PHP, and it still gets a good amount of attention on HN. Python just has more of the "inspiring language" atmosphere, while PHP has more of the "corporate, mundane" feel. And I'm an avid open source developer working on multiple PHP and Python projects...
- indiejade 17y agoAll righty; I'll give you that. Try this logic: maybe because Yahoo! is all about PHP and Google is all about Python and Yahoo! is older than Google. :)