> But anyway, after that... Wikipedia
Granted.
> Laravel, Symphony, CakePHP.
These are frameworks.
> I built a CakePHP front end for a startup that after 8 years and was sold for $50m.
That startup was much more than just that front end, wasn't it?
Granted.
> Laravel, Symphony, CakePHP.
These are frameworks.
> I built a CakePHP front end for a startup that after 8 years and was sold for $50m.
That startup was much more than just that front end, wasn't it?
It was what 99% of all customers saw, and it was practically bug free for 6 years. What else do you want?
I built and maintained it primarily as a single developer. Yes there were other parts to the company, but both Slack and Facebook were started up purely on PHP - so there's no reason to suggest that you still can't build up $50m companies on purely PHP code.
Anyway the discussion from the article is whether it would have been better to write it in Java. I can't see what benefit Java would bring.
Yeah, that I agree with. The success of a company and the quality of the programming language(s) it uses are almost never linked.
>Anyway the discussion from the article is whether it would have been better to write it in Java. I can't see what benefit Java would bring.
Quite true, yes.