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Show HN: I made a Ruby on Rails-like framework in PHP (Still in progress)
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As to why anyone thinks this is fun when PHP lacks so much of the expressive power of Ruby that makes Rails delightful...
As to speed, I am recalling an experience in 2010 where Rails running on a $30,000 4U 8-core Sun Solaris box ran 6x slower than a $600 4-core Intel CentOS PC from Best Buy. The surprise turned into anger when the Sun box would spontaneously turn off every night with a spontaneous "Case open fault" that turned out to be a firmware defect, where Sun refused to allow access to the update that corrected the defect without paying for a service contract that cost more than the PC.
Ah, the good old days of true iron.
CakePHP? As to why anyone thinks this is fun when PHP lacks so much of the expressive power of Ruby that makes Rails delightful... As to speed, I am recalling an experience in 2010 where Rails running on a $30,000 4U 8-core Sun Solaris box ran 6x slower than a $600 4-core Intel CentOS PC from Best Buy. The surprise turned into anger when the Sun box would spontaneously turn off every night with a spontaneous "Case op…