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Just because Hacker News is biased toward Javascript and Ruby doesn't mean the rest of the world is.
by deweller 13y ago
Just because Hacker News is biased toward Javascript and Ruby doesn't mean the rest of the world is.
- shubhamjain 13y agoJust forget the bias, how many alternatives are their to PHP in terms of back-end? Many : Python (Django), Ruby ( Rails ) and I think almost every major langauge has some port for Web development. Now what are the alternatives to Javascript: None. Why do you think PHP would be more popular?
- nbouscal 13y agoThere are tons of alternatives to JS if you count languages that compile to JS. Probably just as many as there are alternatives to PHP. Also, the fact that there are alternatives to PHP does not mean that they are widely used. We're in an echo chamber here, but in the real world, PHP is still the de facto language of the back end web. The LAMP stack is still the dominant setup. It's unfortunate, but it's reality.
- martin_ 13y agoRails and Django are frameworks, why are you comparing them to a language? It's hardly apples to apples.
- venomsnake 13y agoIf you have socket, concurrency and string capabilities you can create web backend in anything.