Posts tagged “ruby on rails”

I've been a die-hard PHP developer for a decade, but I can feel it dying the same death Perl died when PHP beat it. Rails seems like the obvious successor but it's too slow and ActiveRecord is a mess. The real problem: PHP's replacement simply doesn't exist yet.

PHP is dying the same death Perl did before it. Rails is the obvious successor, but after 7 months living in it daily, I can't recommend it: the performance costs are brutal, ActiveRecord is a mess, and Rails is just another framework bolted onto a language. PHP's true replacement doesn't exist yet.