I'll admit up front that I don't have a huge amount of PHP experience, I wrote a simple CMS in it a couple of years ago as an experiment, and yes, as a tool for hacking up quick web sites it's not bad. However, a tool for building high performance multi-threaded streaming media servers it is not. No seperation of data and presentation (ala MVC), no strict typing - I don't even know if it has good threading support. Given the time and inclination I'm sure I could come up with more :)
It's all about the right too for the job, not whether one language is "better" than another. Perl is a great language for scripting, and was the original web development language because of it's aptitude for processing text in a stdio environment with very rapid development/test cycles (no compilation). PHP improves on Perl in a web scripting environment, no questions, but I still don't think it's right for Slimserver, and I question it's suitability for any large scale complex app. In short I guess, if there's going to be the huge effort spent to move Slimserver to some other platform, I would hope it would be to one more suited for the task at hand that Perl, not less so. If, as was suggested, the move is to PHP, it would be a sign to me that whoever is leading the effort is not on what I consider a sensible path, hence why I'd bail. Anyway this is all offtopic and rather academic seeing as I haven't contributed anything to Slimserver yet! My opinions are my own, but I defer to the amazing devs doing the real work to make the decisions :) -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19071 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
