[SATLUG] IO-InfoOnly: PHP Eats Rails for Breakfast

[R. Tyler Ballance]

On Nov 27, 2006, at 3:21 AM, Robert Pearson wrote:

>> From the post at Oloh:
> "Despite the buzz around sexy new frameworks like Rails and Django,
> PHP is more dominant than ever."
> [Article source]
> <<http://ohloh.net/wiki/articles/php_eats_rails>>

Disclaimer: I hate Ruby, I hate PHP, but most of all I hate rails  
(and those garsh darned trains that use them!) ;)

What complete pseudo-science, new lines of code is a miserable means  
of measuring productivity, or growth. Not to mention, in the past  
three years, PHP has become the "common" server side scripting  
language to where the crappiest of the crappiest hosting plans still  
provide the capability to serve PHP pages.

Statistics should always be taken with a grain of salt, PHP was  
initially publicly released in 1995, Ruby on Rails was initially  
publicly released in 2004.


That said, I'm pleased with the progress being made with server-side  
C#: http://mono-project.com/Mod_mono

Cheers :)

R. Tyler Ballance: Lead Mac Developer at bleep. software
contact: tyler at bleepsoft.com | jabber: tyler at jabber.geekisp.com