Taking PHP Seriously
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Keith Adams is a Virtual Machinist at Facebook. He is one of the initial designers and implementers of HHVM, the open source PHP JIT that runs Facebook's front-end. Through a series of mostly fortunate events, Keith became a founding member of The I-can't-believe-I'm-a-PHP-advocate Club. Before working at Facebook, Keith worked on VMware's virtual machine monitor.
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Taking PHP Seriously ? Seriously ?
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Dominique De Vito
* JavaScript is moving to server-side and is going to have classes and modules and other stuff coming soon
* Java is moving towards JavaScript with lambda and some dose of type inference and due to (also) Avatar, enabling to execute efficiently JavaScript code on the Java server-side platform.
And PHP ? IMHO, PHP sits into the middle, that is, between JavaScript and Java.
A JavaScript++ (that JavaScript+classes+modules) will be as good as PHP: no type, classes, modules, lambda... (but, today, JavaScript is not as widely used on the server-side as PHP).
But PHP does not have (out of the box) the "typing" insurance and the performance of the Java platform.
Then: JavaScript++ < PHP < Java.
When, JavaScript and Java are moving towards each other, what will be the place left to PHP ? IMHO, it will be not so big...
HTML
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Vic Cekvenich
If you use PHP, you can't PhoneGap build your HTML.
I recommend pure HTML (and call API/CORS). (Same is true of ASP, etc.). Pure HTML!
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