Bug#597899: ITP: yii-framework -- High-performance component-based PHP framework
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:43:44 László Böszörményi wrote:
>> First of all, do you intend to visit DebConf this year?
>
> No... I'd like to visit DebConf one day but probably not this year...
Arrgh, too bad. You have a big jug of beer of your choice from me
when we meet again.
>> Would you like to (co-)maintain it? You tidied it, but didn't add
>> yourself to the Uploaders field. Do you use it somewhere?
>
> I do not want to co-maintain it because I do not use it. I needed Yii to
> evaluate prospective software that I was considering to package.
Which is that software, if its name is public?
>> There are way too many PHP frameworks to take care. Like Kohana[1]
>> that I had plans to use.
>
> Interesting. :) There is also CakePHP (which we already have) but don't you
> have a feeling that the whole PHP thing is an evolutionary dead-end? ;)
Well, I've mixed feelings. Sure, PHP is not the most structured nor a
modern computer language. Read about the glitches[1][2].
Then read about how many developers and sites use it for web pages;
statistics reveal it has a 82% percent domination[3][4].
Facebook told to run on PHP, of course with their engine that was open
sourced[5]. Then the original developers of PHP is refactoring the
whole code base under PHPNG[6].
As such, it's a moving target and still has some potential. We will
see that the upcoming languages like Rust[7] holds for us.
Cheers,
Laszlo/GCS
[1] http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
[2] http://whydoesitsuck.com/why-does-php-suck/
[3] http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language/all
[4] http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/01/31/php-just-grows-grows.html
[5] http://hhvm.com/
[6] https://wiki.php.net/phpng
[7] http://www.rust-lang.org/
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