Re: PHP on .NET DLR

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:27:38AM +0200, Bojan Tesanovic wrote:
> 
> This is interesting idea but lets split it
> 
> What PHP community get
> 1) Ability to use MS .NET tools together with PHP
> 2) It can combine application PHP with C# one
> 3) Nice IDE
> 4) ...

 1000).. Write a threaded php application. :-) 

> 
> What PHP community loose
> 1) Money, as PHP Zend Platform/Studio can suffer
> 2) ...
> 

 This won't be entirely the case. Currently with silverlight, .NET would run as a pure client-server app, with the silverlight client communicating with the backend PHP app. Actually, PHP on .NET would be redundant, and my practical experience is that for most big projects, converting their large php app to .NET wouldn't be a safe bet. But if you don't have PHP on silverlight, the enterprise might be forced to convert their existing PHP applications to ruby or some other language, since otherwise you have to maintain two separate languages for client and server.

 The core idea that I am trying implement is a php silverlight client on Windows communicating with a pure php application on linux. This is currently not possible with PHP, and I am really thinking of porting my entire app to ruby, so that I can have a consistency across platforms.

 At least the industry--even MS haters it appears--thinks silverlight would be the next big thing to happen to the Web. Silverlight was what I thought MS would even initially do with .NET, but as always it took MS 7 years to get it right.

 Thanks.