"When Google AppEngine was announced, a lot of sturm und drang went through the PHP community because it only supported Python. Of course, the same thing went through the Ruby community. The Perl community, not so much, because they’re used to getting ignored."
http://funkatron.com/site/comments/google-app-engine-from-a-php-develope...
Not to long ago I was looking out for a good open source project management software for a friend. He was using Basecamp, but did not like it, cause it was not free software and working for a organization which really pushes for free software, he was in the market looking for alternatives. This is when I stumbled on something called ActiveCollab.
ActiveCollab is written in PHP5 and uses MySQL as a backend, I have not had the time to look under the hood. I have not had any unsuspected issues yet with it. Although it still feels like Basecamp 2005'. There is no AJAX, just a little JavaScript here and there. But the road map seems bright. I have also heard a lot of developers are interested in helping the project out. A while back a friend of mine, told me he and some friends at Stanford were developing a GPLed version of Basecamp written in Python, they did not use DJango but instead wrote their own framework.
Once upon a time (way back in 2002) people laughed at me when I said I only know Ruby or asked me what is Ruby? Hence I learnt PHP. Now Ruby is the new PHP just like how white is the new black, and tags the new taxonomy.
Now I feel sad for all the time I wasted learning PHP. Only good thing with PHP is I get to mess around with Drupal. Just crossing my fingers that IO or Python does not turn out to be the new Ruby... at least for a few years more.
Mood: Depressed..
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