Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 622
I've spent alot of time writing code in Ruby/Rails... I've now been a PHP dev for 2 years and have used alot of what I learned in rails and applied it to PHP..
I don't see why you'd prefer php language constructs over Ruby - they are more tedious in every way right down to having to write "array" in front of every array.. (thank heavens they finally changed the latest version)
@array.map! {|x| x**2 } is much easier to read/understand than using the equivlent array_map function in php.. (Or for that matter using foreach or classic index-based for loop)
PHP's biggest problem - to me - is the lack of a FastCGI-style environment where code is already running and requests are just fed to the running daemon.. For this reason, its always going to be slower than other languages.... APC is an attempt to do this but its not very mature yet and still requires byte code to be interpreted on each request. Facebook wrote a PHP->C++ translator and that should say alot about the state of the language...
I don't see why you'd prefer php language constructs over Ruby - they are more tedious in every way right down to having to write "array" in front of every array.. (thank heavens they finally changed the latest version)
@array.map! {|x| x**2 } is much easier to read/understand than using the equivlent array_map function in php.. (Or for that matter using foreach or classic index-based for loop)
PHP's biggest problem - to me - is the lack of a FastCGI-style environment where code is already running and requests are just fed to the running daemon.. For this reason, its always going to be slower than other languages.... APC is an attempt to do this but its not very mature yet and still requires byte code to be interpreted on each request. Facebook wrote a PHP->C++ translator and that should say alot about the state of the language...
