Yeah, all the article actually meant was that the language powering all of the data providing APIs that mobile applications are using will more frequently be PHP applications.
Though I don't think that has really changed and won't change from what it currently is. For instance, if there's one thing that Ruby on Rails apps are wildly known to be amazing at, it's providing a super fast and efficient REST API with a super short development period, and that's a large part of what is "providing client-side app-enabling tools" for mobile. Those Rails apps often handle over 500 requests per second (see this old 2007 benchmark: http://www.rubyenterpriseedition.com/comparisons.html) on a single server where you're lucky to get maybe 60 r/s with an equivalent (highly optimized) CakePHP-powered app. Then again, maybe this all depends on either the Yii Framework or CodeIgniter taking off, because everything I've seen mostly points to these two frameworks being able to match Rails apps (http://www.yiiframework.com/performance/). Regards, Bryan Petty _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
