Friday, April 4. 2008

DHH on PHP

Somebody on Twitter pointed this out, and I thought I'd spread the word: DHH of Rails fame has posted a nice, short, and very interesting thought on "The immediacy of PHP".

I've been delving a little into Rails lately myself, and what I find is: use the right tool for the job. For green-field, self-hosted projects, Rails is not a bad choice, and offers a very easy way to get your application up and running quickly. But due to the fact that PHP was built for the web, there are any number of tasks that are simpler and faster to accomplish using it. Evaluate your needs carefully, and choose the tool that best addresses them.

It's nice to see leaders of projects like Rails having this same attitude. It's a breath of fresh air in the competitive market of web development frameworks.

Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney in PHP at 09:06 | Comment (1) | Trackback (1)
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David Heinemeier Hansson, seines Zeichens Ruby on Rails Erfinder, schrieb einen netten, kleinen Beitrag zum Thema PHP. Ich finde es sehr gut, da
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This is exactly what I've always been saying. Most, if not all, programming languages have something they excel at.

Also nice to see that not all Rails folk are idiots. I've got the image that a lot of Rails devs seem to say PHP sucks - probably with no proper reasoning.
#1 Jani Hartikainen (Link) on 2008-04-04 12:28 (Reply)

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