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Stack overflow is popular and it's C# IIRC. I think PHP in general is popular because it's made for web and very easy to get started. This has cause a dispropo
by digitalzombie 11y ago
Stack overflow is popular and it's C# IIRC.
I think PHP in general is popular because it's made for web and very easy to get started. This has cause a disproportional market share where the bulk of the popular site, cms, project are PHP. But that doesn't necessarily means other languages can't compete, it just mean PHP have a good market share.
Another arguably popular website is OkCupid and that was coded in C++.
I also think PHP will stay popular because of Facebook. They have contributed to several important projects including a pretty good VM and there are a resurgent of momentum imo. Most of it are copying what RoR group have pioneer.
- aikah 11y agoStack overflow isn't an opensource plateform like Diaspora. You could talk about Umbraco and such that are popular in the .NET space but you can't really compare SO and Diaspora.
- digitalzombie 11y agoOh I thought your point was popular web projects in general. So to clarify, you're comparing Diaspora an open source p2p social media platform that is written in Ruby/Ember to what now?
- aikah 11y ago> So to clarify, you're comparing Diaspora an open source p2p social media platform that is written in Ruby/Ember to what now? I don't know any popular p2p social plateform written in PHP. All I know is the one written with Rails isn't as popular as it should have been.