Rust seems like an excellent server language, and I look forward to seeing it get more mindshare. Swift smells a lot like Rust.
But I’ve used PHP for my backend work. I’m not really a backend engineer, and I am sure it could be done better; even with PHP.
One of the reasons for my choosing PHP, is because it is so widely known, and is a perfectly good language, as long as it is written well.
There was that study that was done recently, where they showed what I call “the fishtank graph.”
This was the graph that showed which server languages were in use.
PHP was this fairly steady line along the top, and every other language looked like gravel in a fishtank, along the bottom.
Rust seems like an excellent server language, and I look forward to seeing it get more mindshare. Swift smells a lot like Rust.
But I’ve used PHP for my backend work. I’m not really a backend engineer, and I am sure it could be done better; even with PHP.
One of the reasons for my choosing PHP, is because it is so widely known, and is a perfectly good language, as long as it is written well.
There was that study that was done recently, where they showed what I call “the fishtank graph.”
This was the graph that showed which server languages were in use.
PHP was this fairly steady line along the top, and every other language looked like gravel in a fishtank, along the bottom.