Real programmers roll their own database files with b-tree indexes. ;)

I think you seriously understate what's wrong with PHP. Beside all the things that is mentioned in that article, I love how you suggest several php frameworks that attempt to be like Rails but all built on such a flawed language.

And Rails is not hard to deploy any more... that argument is several years out of date.

... AND collect the google money. Or, if you don't care about $20 million, give it to me!

... your own post from 5 years ago asking exactly the same, unanswered, question. *sigh*

This. So much this.

Over the years I've used various languages to some degree... C, C++,Java, PHP, Perl.... and Ruby is simply the most fun and most expressive. I'll allow that all these languages have their strengths. (ok, not PHP). Python, too has many valid proponents and use cases, but I just can't have fun in a whitespace sensitive language. Java - I think is nice for people that like to type a lot. The modern day COBOL. But if IIRC, the fastest ruby interpreter is currently JRuby, so I can't entirely fault Java. C and C++ is obviously best for kernels and libraries where speed matters a lot, but obviously horrible for web application development.

For my own interests in web application development, Ruby on Rails is a sweet spot... I can make a lot of money doing something really fun. What's not to like about that?

Look again at a globe. Halfway between these two locations is somewhere north of Alaska.

What gets me is when I google a particular problem and the first result is a post I made 5 years ago asking the same question. Even worse is when it went unanswered 5 years ago. :(

I have an old pc with a P4 hyperthread, running Windows XP, and it can't run much more than solitaire anymore either. What's your point?

Seriously? Try again.

Funny, I was thinking the same thing about being stuck in California... ;)

The BIG convenience of owning a gun and ammunition is that I can take my gun and ammunition and defend my home from you, immediately, with immediate effect, without the high risk of waiting 20 minutes for the police to arrive.

And for dropping someone jacked up on drugs, 7 rounds might not be enough to get the job done definitively.

Yeah, I have to revise my statement, I didn't know about the second wave this week, and we are busy patching dozens of applications. All rails apps are vulnerable until updated. This is pretty darn serious in the rails community.

That's just silly, since the fix can be easily applied. It really nothing compared to all the wordpress exploits out the that never get patched.

Of course, then there's the fire danger...