Let me begin by saying that I have not spent a lot of time in Java. I learned it in college (some 12 years ago) and I’ve used it sparingly throughout my development career. To date I’ve never done a full project using only Java. And ironically, one of the main reasons I haven’t is I don’t know where to start…
Now, the reason Java development scares me is two-fold:
I probably only know a handful of Java developers and I’ve asked each of them both of these questions. Guess what, I get very different answers from each of them.
Again, ironically, it’s not that this is a bad thing – in reality it’s a really good thing as I’m not limited to what I choose. It’s just a very daunting first step!
When I’m using PHP, over the past 5 years, this does seem to be a similar situation with frameworks. MVC frameworks are a dime a dozen. The major difference here is I chose a framework a long time ago before this massive in fluctuation and haven’t really detoured since.
C# does not seem to have this issue at all. There are very few choices – yet to be determined if this is good or bad J
The second issue – the HTTP server – seems to be strictly a Java issue. In PHP I have very minimum choices of what can serve up my PHP pages: Apache, Nginx, or IIS – excluding some recent custom built solutions here…
C# is even more limited: IIS – unless we’re exploring something like Mono to run it on (L)Unix – which I have never personally done.
At the end of the day, a language to me is just a language. Syntax is slightly different of course between them, but definitely not a hurdle to switch. The major hurdle is once you choose a language, the right underlying technology becomes the most important thing – and this is where I struggle when it comes to Java – I just don’t know... Published on May 6, 2013 Tags: php
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On a regular basis I typically use either C# or PHP. At my current employment, C# seems to be the day-to-day; however, when we have a small project or I have a small project on my own, I’ll use PHP. It’s quick (in terms of development) and nimble (it terms of being run-time interpreted) so it lets me cheat my way through simple projects.
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