Has PHP decided whether it's a language or a framework yet?
EDIT: To clarify, a framework like Rails definitely has a place for including a web server.
Now Ruby has a lightweight web servers in its standard library (but not its core library). Maybe the problem people are seeing with the web server (and it's not a new problem) is the way PHP's core library contains so many things that other languages would leave out as optional includes.
Re:The new PHP
by kiiski on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @10:41AM
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I think the problem is more likely to be that people here are so predisposed against PHP that they only see the potential problems, and ignore the benefits.
EDIT: To clarify, a framework like Rails definitely has a place for including a web server.
Now Ruby has a lightweight web servers in its standard library (but not its core library). Maybe the problem people are seeing with the web server (and it's not a new problem) is the way PHP's core library contains so many things that other languages would leave out as optional includes.