what language used in Mangolassi
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
wow, interesting
JavaScript has been the biggest language for new projects for the last two or three years. That doesn't mean that most projects use it by any stretch, but as far as "interest from the development community", JS has been the biggest thing. It is by far what people talk about. If you see interesting new projects today (Rocket.chat for example) there is a really high chance that it is JavaScript.
What ever happened to Ruby on Rails? It was suppose to be thing that was going to take over... But never did
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@Jason said:
What ever happened to Ruby on Rails? It was suppose to be thing that was going to take over... But never did
It did quite a bit and is still a major development platform. It probably remains the best tool for the developers themselves. It has huge performance issues and that held it back in larger deployments. Good developers can fix that, but by default, it struggles. Node.js came along at just the right time to steal its thunder and has remained the go to tool since.
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Node.js is getting steadily more popular, but PHP still is used to create new projects, it's just that many projects today are client heavy and asynchronous and PHP can't run on the client and the asynchronous aspects are pretty much garbage, though it's began to improve, but slowly.
There are still issues with Node.js which are issues inherent in JavaScript itself, such as ..
- No strict typing, which PHP now has, though with TypeScript and Flow you can sort of mimic it; but then again you could do that in PHP back in the day too and it still sucked and slowed things down a lot, just as it does in JS.
- There's a unified number type, i.e. all numbers are floats, therefore 1.0000000000000001 === 1, even in strict comparison
- Instead of a hash map, it uses objects, and create all sorts of damn nightmares
- The "prototype" system is dog turds
- Inheretence is messed up, badly
- Depending on your structure, "this" may point to something completely unexpected, such as the parent, or parent's parent, etc.
- On that topic, no classes, though this is fixed in the next version of JS
- All object keys are strings
- All objects are passed by reference regardless of how often you copy them, so you have to create a loop or use a framework to deal with this
Some of this stuff node.js works around or implements future versions of the standard for, but it's still very lacking. However, it may not do the best job, but it does an OK job very well, reliably, and fast.
In our environments we use mostly PHP 7 (all strict typing now, opcache, etc) and also node.js for chat systems, our web cam system has been moved to it, etc. We've also redone all of our last remaining Ruby stuff and put it into PHP 7 for the most part (because they were incorporated into current PHP projects), and one project with node.js (since it was a rewrite from scratch). The primary thing keeping us from switching only to node.js, is what I mentioned above in addition to there's no easy way to convert millions of lines of code for 7 web sites to node.js and transition everything seamlessly... yet. There will be.
Having said that, Ruby is slow as hell, very slow, and Python is even slower. Not only that, both Ruby and Python, it's much harder to get going on projects, you can't just open a text editor and start, you have to go through an ordeal to start a project, setup all your gems, and your eggs, and blah blah, fart, fart. I think this is one of the main things that turns people off when they try to start learning it, meanwhile they can just go write PHP or JS without doing a bunch of extra work like the compiler is the Kremlin or something.
I think the future is with node.js though, because it's the same language on front and backend, you can't beat that. PHP will almost certainly be easily converted to node.js in time, especially if better typing and OOP comes along. It's simply a matter of converting the syntax, creating replacements for PHP's massive native library (which has been underway for a while), and a few other things. Certainly converting from PHP to node.js when the time is right will be a breeze compared to so Lisp or BASIC handicapped language.
With asm.js, cross compiling PHP 7 to node.js may be the way to go once more coverage is available. This way you can still write your PHP 7 and just cross compile. It works with other languages as well. I've been thoroughly impressed with asm.js and to save time, I'm counting on node.js's takeover to push things like asm.js or full-conversion projects forward. I may even write a PHP -> JS converter myself if nobody else does.
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PHP 7 is definitely a big move that puts PHP solidly back on the map. PHP pre-7 was pretty "meh", but with 7 it has a bit of new life. It's a good language, for sure. But doing a new project in it would not be, often, my first choice.
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@scottalanmiller said:
PHP 7 is definitely a big move that puts PHP solidly back on the map. PHP pre-7 was pretty "meh", but with 7 it has a bit of new life. It's a good language, for sure. But doing a new project in it would not be, often, my first choice.
If not for strict typing with PHP 7, I openly said I was going to move to either Go or node.js, probably would've been node.js, but at the time I was open to either. Even though node.js doesn't have strict typing, avoiding it for the next major release of PHP would've been a sign the show was over. Plenty of people fought against it, claiming "PHP is becoming Java," hell I wish it would. The power of Java with the coverage of PHP? Man, that'd be great, I don't see how that's a bad thing.
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Yeah, I love Java as a language. It's not perfect, but it is very good.
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@it-admin said in what language used in Mangolassi:
@scottalanmiller but PHP still has the lion share in the web market, isn't it??
PHP is making a big come back now. It never went away, but since the PHP 7 series released it has greatly improved in performance and features and is way more viable today than it was at the time of this thread. Its ecosystem has blossomed again and there are more and more powerful frameworks than before.
It is still only one of many great options, but way better than it used to be.
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@scottalanmiller said in what language used in Mangolassi:
@it-admin said in what language used in Mangolassi:
@scottalanmiller but PHP still has the lion share in the web market, isn't it??
PHP is making a big come back now. It never went away, but since the PHP 7 series released it has greatly improved in performance and features and is way more viable today than it was at the time of this thread. Its ecosystem has blossomed again and there are more and more powerful frameworks than before.
It is still only one of many great options, but way better than it used to be.
Indeed, PHP was sort of deadlocked for a long time during the early 5.x era, but a lot of needed things like type hinting and so forth really helped turn things around. A lot of people hate on PHP, but it runs a ton of the web just fine and it's getting better.
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@scottalanmiller said in what language used in Mangolassi:
@it-admin said in what language used in Mangolassi:
@scottalanmiller but PHP still has the lion share in the web market, isn't it??
PHP is making a big come back now. It never went away, but since the PHP 7 series released it has greatly improved in performance and features and is way more viable today than it was at the time of this thread. Its ecosystem has blossomed again and there are more and more powerful frameworks than before.
It is still only one of many great options, but way better than it used to be.
WTF with the necro posting yesterday and today...
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@tonyshowoff said in what language used in Mangolassi:
@scottalanmiller said in what language used in Mangolassi:
@it-admin said in what language used in Mangolassi:
@scottalanmiller but PHP still has the lion share in the web market, isn't it??
PHP is making a big come back now. It never went away, but since the PHP 7 series released it has greatly improved in performance and features and is way more viable today than it was at the time of this thread. Its ecosystem has blossomed again and there are more and more powerful frameworks than before.
It is still only one of many great options, but way better than it used to be.
Indeed, PHP was sort of deadlocked for a long time during the early 5.x era, but a lot of needed things like type hinting and so forth really helped turn things around. A lot of people hate on PHP, but it runs a ton of the web just fine and it's getting better.
Yeah, PHP 5 nearly killed it off as people seemed to just give up on it.
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@jaredbusch said in what language used in Mangolassi:
@scottalanmiller said in what language used in Mangolassi:
@it-admin said in what language used in Mangolassi:
@scottalanmiller but PHP still has the lion share in the web market, isn't it??
PHP is making a big come back now. It never went away, but since the PHP 7 series released it has greatly improved in performance and features and is way more viable today than it was at the time of this thread. Its ecosystem has blossomed again and there are more and more powerful frameworks than before.
It is still only one of many great options, but way better than it used to be.
WTF with the necro posting yesterday and today...
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