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Although the article didn't cover any specifics of the language, I think PHP has definitely improved. For what it lacks in elegance, it makes up in ease of dep
by neovive 17y ago
Although the article didn't cover any specifics of the language, I think PHP has definitely improved. For what it lacks in elegance, it makes up in ease of deployment and scalability. Overall, the improvements made to PHP over the past few years and the upcoming changes in PHP 5.3/6.0 and the variety of excellent frameworks to choose from, make it a very good language to keep in your web development toolkit. It doesn't do everything extremely well, but it does many things well enough.
- jrockway 17y agoIt is amazing that people are willing to sink thousands of hours into programming around PHP's problems (probably without noticing) because they are afraid to run "cpan -i Some::Modules" and cut-n-paste a FastCGI configuration into their web server's config file. Ease of deployment is nice, but deploying other languages is not much harder, and it's significantly easier to actually write a reliable application.