Re:Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse
by tracker1 on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:58PM
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I have to tentatively agree... I would think that Python, NodeJS and Go would all be better options. Node would have the benefits of similar tooling for the UX/UI side as the backend, Python would also be scripted with more consistent constraints and Go was designed for this kind of workload.
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Re:Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse
by jospoortvliet on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @02:15PM
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NodeJS didn't exist, Python is slow and Go scales fine on ONE server but doesn't scale horizontally very well... while PHP scales perfectly that way. It has downsides, which is why we pick other languages for some components (our Spreed High Performance Back-end for Nextcloud Talk is written in Go, our app store in Ruby).
But talk was initially written in Go, which made it harder to install, so we actually rewrote it in PHP... There's a lot of value in having a built-in app store that is easy to use from the web UI. There is a reason why the web runs on PHP. And it isn't because it is perfect, but it has some neath advantages that just help in many scenarios.