I haven’t given up on PHP

Re:I haven’t given up on PHP — yet by thomasmallen on Monday December 15, 2008 @11:03PM (#399168)

That's a load of FUD and a fabricated horror story. Computationally intensive business logic should be implemented as a C/C++ extension in any case because PHP is still essentially a web language and a glue language. Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP's creator, has stated as much.

Any claim that PHP can't scale is at this point a dead letter, as are more dated claims that Java is too slow, etc.

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Re:I haven’t given up on PHP — yet by blasdel on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @03:18AM (#399340)

But as soon as you get into building extensions to mod_php, you've lost everything that's great about PHP: the deployment story / execution model.

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Re:I haven’t given up on PHP — yet by thomasmallen on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @07:49AM (#399430)

And if you have the capability and good reasons to build your own extensions, deployment probably isn't much of a concern. But building and loading extensions into PHP is not very difficult, assuming dependencies are already met.

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Re:I haven’t given up on PHP — yet by zmimon on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @01:50AM (#399294)

Well, I think you completely missed my point, since I didn't anywhere say that PHP can't scale in the sense you are talking about.

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Re:I haven’t given up on PHP — yet by thomasmallen on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @09:26AM (#399496)

While we're at it, PHP is pretty bad for desktop GUIs and artificial intelligence...

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