PHP popularity
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The last graph shows that most of the new projects are in ruby(rails). That is the most important part. Most of the new projects are tending towards ruby. I dont believe LOC as the true measure of the success of any language. Rails is a relatively new framework so it is bound to have lesser LOC. I think those figures are going to change drastically in some time.
gaurav_scr wrote:
Rails is a relatively new framework
Exactly. Obviously PHP is going to be far more established - it's been around probably a decade by now. Although it's interesting that Perl isn't as popular anymore.
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After reading PHP eats Rails for breakfast[^] I felt distinctally saddened. We complain about marketers and the media for being sensationalist hacks and yet we, we programmers and developers and coders and engineers, can be just as bad. Admittedly a part of me is rising to defend Rails but had that been ASP instead of Rails I would have been almost as scornful of the article. Objections off the top of my head; LOC is a terrible measure of anything. It only measure open source projects. What about non-scripting languages used for web-dev. The title says "Rails" but the graphs say "Ruby"; sensationalist hack. Now, I admit it; PHP is huge. Of course it is. It was the only real option for many years. I just hate that developers can be as prone to sensationalism as the media.
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eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
Paul Watson wrote:
The title says "Rails" but the graphs say "Ruby"
I think they've just tried to form a headline that forms a mental image of the almighty PHP eating metal for breakfast :) I think they're just trying to make old news sound exciting. Everyone knows PHP is well established (it's had the advantage of a decade or so over newer tech's). Seems to me they're trying to advertise themselves more than anything (and they're obviously PHP zealots :~). Personally I prefer ASP.NET for web dev (not a scripting language though). But I have my gripes about both platforms. I'll probably look into RoR at some stage; to be able to compare.
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