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PHP has also become a much more vibrant language to develop in. It doesn't have the coolness factor of Haskell, Go, or Scala, but it has become a lot better in
by vcherubini 13y ago
PHP has also become a much more vibrant language to develop in. It doesn't have the coolness factor of Haskell, Go, or Scala, but it has become a lot better in the recent years.
Combined with a better overall language (that still has it's warts, lets be clear here) and an ever expanding amazing ecosystem of great libraries and you have something that is easy to deploy _and_ fun to work with.
- ErikAugust 13y agoStuff like composer, Silex/Symfony2, the addition of closures, the speed of new versions + OpCode caching make PHP pretty usable. Thinking LAMP as a whole - the speed of new versions of MySQL (5.6, 5.7) and the Percona branch are also pretty sweet.
- textminer 13y agoHow much has Facebook's open-source contributions to PHP (say, the HHVM) helped the development and adoption of the language?
- ErikAugust 13y agoNot sure how many every day PHP deployments are using HipHop. Probably nice option to have when you get to a certain point. But Memcached, APC, and wrappers for Redis probably have done the language much more of a service in ways...