Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002)
by aaron-lebo on Sunday September 03, 2017 @08:25AM
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It's a good barrier to entry. If in 2017 you can't figure out how to setup an ec2 instance and run a simple webserver in any language, then you don't need to be setting up software. It's not hard.
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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002)
by jimktrains2 on Sunday September 03, 2017 @08:37AM
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Not even that, but with services like heroku and app engine, upload-and-refresh style development isn't php or old asp or cgi on a shared host anymore.
Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002)
by wolco on Sunday September 03, 2017 @08:53AM
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But people do need to setup software and run their business. If your favourite language can't abstract away those setup details your language will be skipped by the masses who want to get things done and won't want to invest the time in the setup details.
It was easy to get setup and start programming in the 80s. That allowed you to spend time/energy on the complex logic you needed to write the program. Most programming is so much easier the level of math required is so much smaller and most websites are simple crud. Why are we making the setup process more difficult? Do we really need a gate keeper?