arithma wroteI've been away for a while from the PHP scene, and now all the buzz I hear is about Ruby.
What's your personal experience on the matter?
Never tried PHP and never going to?
Never looking back (love goes to Ruby)?
Planning to be the Last PHP Guy/Gal standing?
Back to the original question "
Are PHP people moving to Ruby?"
1- I haven't heard of any "abnormal" hype or buzz about Ruby lately...
2- While most of the benchmark tests I've seen conclude that Ruby might be faster than PHP. It wasn't really the factor of moving away from one language to another:
Languages, libraries and frameworks don't scale. Architectures do.
If you design a solid architecture. If you are able to make it evolve quickly. It will scale.
Yahoo! uses PHP, Google uses Python. But both use C/C++ for resource intensive processing, because you won't use an interpreted language for that anyway.
Reference.
Also most of
Facebook code is built on PHP but they use HipHop to gain performance.
I'm aware that the above quote is between PHP & Python but the point is, there is no real answer of "YES avoid language X and go for Y".
On a side note, and for those interested in learning a new language in the summer a better question would be:
"
Django OR RoR"
Have a read of this
question, as always there are
hundreds of results and opinion about this. But try to find new articles about this because both frameworks have evolved dramatically lately.
Lately I was working on porting a FB
sample app from python to PHP and I was impressed by django and what you can do with little code (of course after loading a punch of libraries).