On Saturday, 21 November 2015 at 10:29:57 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Saturday, 21 November 2015 at 07:20:07 UTC, Joakim wrote:
PHP scales. This is why people use it. And this is why people
will continue to use it. This is why Facebook, wikipedia,
Baidu, wordpress and many others are using it. There is
always a reason, and if you don't understand it, you are
doomed to miss the point.
Whut? PHP scales?! If you simply mean that it is easily
coded by lowest-common denominator programmers, so it's easy
to throw a bunch of those low-skilled coders on the job, then
perhaps that's why you end up with monstrosities like this:
Yes PHP sclaes. PHP scales like crazy? PHP scales better than
whatever modern framework you'll present me. There is just
nothing that came up with the same execution.
You can say whatever you want about the languages (and there is
a lot to say !) but it gets its execution model right for
scaling, while everybody gets it wrong. And apparently, getting
your execution model right is more important than all the quirk
you pour into the language.
Actually, that's not surprising, Rasmus Ledorf is a specialist
of the web, while he doesn't knows much about PL both
theoretically and practically (by his own admission). As a
result, you get a passable language, but you know what ? That's
not the important part.
Could you elaborate a bit on this? What about the execution model
is so right?
