Basecamp and Backpack from 37signals use PHP

Re:Basecamp and Backpack from 37signals use PHP by antirez on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @09:01AM (#25197)

Given that Flickr is written in PHP, Delicious in Perl, Reddit in Python, Foo in Bar, I think that unless you are using something like Java or C++ that really will make you 5 times slower in the development process it does not really matter too much. IMHO this is highly related to the nature of web applications where the design of the UI, the feeling, and the idea you are developing is much more important than complex data structures and funky algorithms (being the only real challenge scalability in many projects).

What's nice is that actually if you master computer science it counts even in web programming as long as there are non trivial problems to solve, but this happens 5% of the times compared of 95% when you write, for example, a compiler.

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Re:Basecamp and Backpack from 37signals use PHP by dean on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @10:52AM (#25224)

I thought the interesting thing about this post is that 37signals, the creator of RubyOnRails, is using PHP.

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Re:Basecamp and Backpack from 37signals use PHP by antirez on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @12:31PM (#25235)

Maybe they use PHP like a better version of server side includes. For this RoR is probably an overkill.

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Re:Basecamp and Backpack from 37signals use PHP by davidw on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @12:34PM (#25237)

That's exactly how they're using it, and why the original poster's "discovery" really isn't that exciting.

I don't care for it for more serious work, but if you just want to template up one or two pages without a lot of hassle, PHP is far better than Rails.

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Re:Basecamp and Backpack from 37signals use PHP by antirez on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @12:47PM (#25244)

100% agreed, but maybe I'm a bit biased since I'm using mod_ruby + eruby even to build applications, instead of rails.

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