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I regret putting that in my original comment because I believe people take that to mean that I am PHP "hating" (I don't know what that even means). I set the re

I regret putting that in my original comment because I believe people take that to mean that I am PHP "hating" (I don't know what that even means). I set the record straight in another comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547794 . I use PHP extensively and think it has come a hell of a long way over the last couple of years. My meaning with the orignal point of "avoiding PHP" was more in the spirit of platform considerations. You may, for whatever reason, not want to include PHP as part of your system architecture. By being written in JS, Ghost offers an alternative in terms of platform (where something like Drupal, or Dropplets would not).

mbesto 13y ago
I don't discredit you for your hate :) The problem I have is why on earth is this an important feature set? > You may, for whatever reason, not want to include PHP as part of your system architecture. But why? why? why? Why it does it matter if it's called PHP or JavaScript or GabeSpeek (made up). As long it works and it's maintainable, why on earth does this make any rational person's (not saying you specifically) list of features?
- hugofirth 13y ago
  Operating in a larger infrastructure where various components are set in stone and/or not available to them? In a shared hosting esque environment (granted they almost all have PHP by default) it is not impossible to imagine a situation such as this.
mbesto 13y ago
I don't discredit you for your hate :) The problem I have is why on earth is this an important feature set? > You may, for whatever reason, not want to include PHP as part of your system architecture. But why? why? why? Why it does it matter if it's called PHP or JavaScript or GabeSpeek (made up). As long it works and it's maintainable, why on earth does this make any rational person's (not saying you specifically) list of features?

mbesto 13y ago

I don't discredit you for your hate :) The problem I have is why on earth is this an important feature set? > You may, for whatever reason, not want to include PHP as part of your system architecture. But why? why? why? Why it does it matter if it's called PHP or JavaScript or GabeSpeek (made up). As long it works and it's maintainable, why on earth does this make any rational person's (not saying you specifically) list of features?

hugofirth 13y ago
Operating in a larger infrastructure where various components are set in stone and/or not available to them? In a shared hosting esque environment (granted they almost all have PHP by default) it is not impossible to imagine a situation such as this.

mbesto 13y ago