Love the way they avoid mentioning Rails.
does anyone actually use rails anymore... node is the new bling!!!
The new PHP
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Re: The new PHP
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Isn't that pretty much what people use with rails? No one says that is overkill.
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 a…
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.
Re: The new PHP
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In most enterprise environments, you have your choice between .NET and PHP. Given the option, I'll take PHP, thanks.
Twitter's code is "enterprise" code in that it has to satisfy the organization's needs and a huge part of it is not user-facing, but targeting other enterprises (for example, Twitter ads). At Twitter, we use Scala. So, no, you're not necessarily stuck between these two options (or Java, which is another popular choice in the enterprise scene). Scala was chosen specifically, among other things, because Twitter had a l…
Twitter is not what he meant by "enterprise." You work at a tech company. Enterprise connotes big corporate IT department software development.