points by ExoticPearTree 6 hours ago | 0 comments
When discussing programming languages, you need to take into consideration how easy it is to find developers with experience on a certain language.
Sure, you can do web apps in Perl with Catalyst or other frameworks, but the PHP developers are easier to find.
And then, after you develop entire GUIs in a language, it is a herculean effort to port that to another.
And lastly, JavaScript has its own issues too.
[–] j16sdiz 1 hour ago
[–] Dylan16807 6 hours ago
We're talking about an html GUI right? That's not herculean to port between languages.
[–] redundantly 4 hours ago
The difficult part isn't rendering the UI, it's the work that's done between the UI and the back end components/services that's difficult. PHP is used for more than just web pages.
[–] Dylan16807 2 hours ago
But that glue is pretty straightforward and you only have to convert one page at a time.
Perl 5 was the language of choice for CGI in that era, but PHP borrowed some of perl syntax and quickly displaced Perl in web usage.
Some perl programmers migrated to Embperl, but it didn't gain much momentum.