Charles Nutter, a Sun engineer who has worked on the JRuby project, commented on PHP in a panel discussion at Sun’s CommunityOne conference.
I will not join the “PHP vs. Ruby on Rails” “discussion” here, as the comparison of a programming language to a web application framework for another language does not make sense, IMHO. Instead, I would like to comment on two of Charles Nutter’s points.
“With PHP, everyone has his or her own way of doing applications.”
I think it is a good thing that the PHP community has a rich offering of framework solutions to choose from.
Although it looks like everyone and their mother is standardizing their PHP-based web application development using the Zend Framework, other component libraries such as the eZ Components and web application frameworks inspired by Ruby on Rails such as Symfony or CakePHP are thriving.
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