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Originally Posted by KlenTelaris
Nop he described it pretty accurate.The reason why facebook is in php it's because it's founder was php programmer so it was an obvious reason to use it.If i would build something new,i would always use PHP simply because i have expertise in it and while other languages are better and faster,those advantages are not big enough to justify learning and using them.
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It's not about being BETTER, it's about maintainability, extensibility, and using the right tool for the job. Code in whatever you're comfortable with, but I code with a team, and the problems we're solving in adult just don't have the SCALE necessary for Python or other languages. As a former Python team member, don't you think I'd use it if it was more appropriate?
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Originally Posted by adultmobile
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?
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That's very cool. I remember the C64/C128 demo scene, and was active in ACiD and iCE for some time myself. I was a young buck, but I loved it. I had quite a C64 setup back in the day.
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Originally Posted by adultmobile
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  |
Great point: when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
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Originally Posted by adultmobile
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.
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You're absolutely right, and this is a great point; I hadn't considered that.
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Originally Posted by adultmobile
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.
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You're right about this. However, I always am thinking about testable, maintainable code. I don't want to maintain my own code forever, I want to hand it off to more junior developers. I use what everyone knows, and I make very effective products with PHP. When I'm coding SOLELY for personal use, yes, I use Node.js and Python -- it just makes more sense in those cases.