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PHP 7 improved performance by around 3x compared to PHP5, so I wonder how true that still is.
The benchmarks http://www.peachpie.io/benchmarks show peachpie outperforming PHP7 easily by 100x.
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One could argue PHP had its shot.
You could, but you'd be ignoring the realities on the ground: Wordpress powers a vast chunk of the web[1], whether we like that or not, and frameworks such as Symphony a good bit of the remainder. For the love that Clojure, Rust etc get on HN their over-representation should not lead you to believe that 'PHP has had it's shot', PHP hasn't had it's shot by a long shot... [1] https://managewp.com/statistics-about-wordp…
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>I also admire the platform but most secure? Comes off a bit too strong. There aren't a lot of .NET exploits for a variety of reasons. Its pretty much the Java of the MS world so a lot of issues more liberal languages have, it doesn't, especially in regards to buffer overflows. Its attack surface is also pretty low as it only really inter-operates, by default, with a limited number of MS applications and is frequentl…
> Http.sys also seems like a more secure product than openssl How is a goddamn HTTP parser in THE KERNEL more secure than a crypto/TLS library? http.sys is a fundamentally horrendous idea, see CVE-2015-1635 https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS15-034 An exploited HTTP parser shouldn't lead to RCE "in the context of the System account".
The number of config permutations in openssl is staggering, and that has to have an effect on the overall test coverage - which probably affects the number of bug that pass through testing.
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You could, but you'd be ignoring the realities on the ground: Wordpress powers a vast chunk of the web[1], whether we like that or not, and frameworks such as Symphony a good bit of the remainder. For the love that Clojure, Rust etc get on HN their over-representation should not lead you to believe that 'PHP has had it's shot', PHP hasn't had it's shot by a long shot... [1] https://managewp.com/statistics-about-wordp…
If Java is the COBOL of the 21st century, PHP is its RPG... ;-)
The reasonably good news here is that PHP code tends to have a rather short life-span so the bulk of it should die off relatively fast once there is an actual alternative.
That's the puzzling bit: even Ruby, python and all the other 'better' languages still don't have the deploy situation worked out to the point that PHP has.
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Critical mass, availability of developers, good documentation, free. There are many reasons why people pick one technology over another.
Cheap for employers is what i'm hearing, but isn't really an incentive for an employee..
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I don't have any substantive evidence for this, but I suspect you'd see very different characteristics among people who work on SharePoint and, say, MVC/WebAPI.
Vastly. People who develop sharepoint tend business focused people or ex IT people. People who develop in MVC tend to be developers.
I don't care about performance, show me if security has improved! (which in the case of Wordpress can't be that hard)
I'll do you one better. We're hosting a private-facing WordPress with several custom post types and some custom fields using ACF Pro. Then we pull directly out of the database with some not-too-complex and fast SQL queries and build a static site with Jekyll. The whole thing is about 200 lines of Ruby + a bunch of configuration for each post type. I'm working on making this a little more generic, because this thing r…
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I think you might be the first case I've heard of of someone wanting to go from .NET to PHP.
Most of my work in the past few years has been migrating .NET projects to PHP for enterprise clients. Especially with PHP 7, the performance is good, it's easier to hire for, and the total cost of ownership is lower. The doomsayers predicting poor security are wrong - it is just as possible to build a secure PHP system as a secure .NET system, and just as easy to build an insecure one. Of course, it depends on the pr…