On Dec 4, 2006, at 07:48, Mike Schinkel wrote:
Henri Sivonen wrote:
C, Java, Python, Perl, C# and Ruby attract developers who
are capable of creating libraries. These languages already
have library ecosystems in place.
Forgive me for being so blunt, but that is an incredibly naïve view.
Quite possible.
Are you saying that you don't believe the ecosystems around those
languages to be capable of producing HTML5 parser libraries or are
you saying that programmers wouldn't use the libraries even if the
ecosystems produced them?
Do you know how hard it was to just get access to do an HTTP
request on an hosted ASP website?!?
Yeah, cheap PHP hosting tends to have problems as well.
As for LAMP, my gut tells me that best case adoption would be 50%
because
people already know string concatonation.
The above was neither about PHP nor about serializer libraries.
The reasons are not the least because of host web hosts being
unwilling to
install component software on their servers that is not required by
standards or the vendors.
That's a problem with C-based libraries for dynamic languages--not as
much pure-dynamic language implementations, whose status is
comparable to the application code.
--
Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
