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Originally Posted by edgeprod
Can you give an example of a problem in adult that you're solving in a different language because PHP couldn't get the job done?
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You can write anything with any language over any hardware. Even on a 1960's turing machine... there's another thread about old Apple and I posted a video of 3d effects running nice on commodore 64. But, for how long more it is worth to code on c64?
Humans write in the language they know better, it is a fact that lots of 30+ years old adult site developers know PHP best, so they will use PHP, either good or bad way, depends by the human. MtGox was a PHP masterpiece
If you ask me, I know C, C++, Java, Python and even Assembly better than PHP, in fact when I have to edit Konrad's PHP's (I will not comment lol), I need google and stackoverflow access "to be sure", or ping him in ICQ. If I have to do a web scraper, chat bot or mass mailer, I use Python - just because in PHP I would be slow and include bugs. I know also C, but it would be overkill, I wrote sites in C cgi's in 1990s just because I was lazy to learn Perl as I knew C from before: Perl guy in the company joked on my 10 pages of C code to make a web form, but for me it was easier than write 3 lines of Perl at the time. Arabic people find easier to write in Arabic than English, it depends by humans.
If you ask most of the people in this thread, they'll use PHP for doing the same stuff I do in Python (and before I done in C). So who knows more Ruby will use Ruby and so on, my point it was on the future, long term, adult kept achored to PHP legacy code and developers. Do we have so many new young developers joining new adult business, except a few PHP guys hired to maintain old PHP code of old adult companies?
The statement about 80% of sites use PHP it may be true, but of these, 1% are really custom new sites and 99% are very old sites or Joomla, WordPress, Drupal installs. My adult sites are in PHP, because based on older PHP cam scripts or tubes, but most of mine (and friend's) mainstream stuff is not PHP.
My point it was: taking in consideration only the 100% custom new sites done from scratch, no simple CMS installs... ask a younger geek, wanting to do his cool stuff for free, or being funded some million dollar by venture capital guys, he (and his banker) may wish to use Ruby on rails, Node.js and fancy Scala, perhaps Python, all other than PHP.
We talk of web development. If you take the TIOBE index:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/ that is in general, include apps, in fact Objective C and C++ is high, that's not web sites - not good data source. A more web-oriented stat, also more young-oriented, it is github:
https://github.com/search?q=NOT+bigboobs
545,532 JavaScript (that's lots of node.js on server)
444,109 Ruby
392,490 Java
275,635 Python
271,465 PHP
(there C# is low for political reasons, but C# is actually cool and used in web).
This is the mainstream ranking; PHP is the least used web language. Compare with adult (99% PHP, 1% C like CJ's and trafficholders), something is wrong. We all agree trained humans can write good PHP code (even if PHP it calls for bugs as it is conceinved), still in mainstream there is a real discussion "what language we use", while in adult there isn't.