Re: PHP on .NET DLR

[email protected] (Rasmus Lerdorf) Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:59:24 -0700
Newsgroups php.evangelism
Message-ID <[email protected]>
K T Ligesh wrote:

>  PHP on .NET has a 1000 reasons. Phalanger is already there. Why are you letting it die?

Personally because it doesn't solve any problem I have.  I build large
scalable web sites.  But this is open source.  It doesn't matter what I
think.  Open Source moves with the interest of the contributors.  If a
couple of developers joined the project tomorrow to make PHP work great
with Silverlight, then it would happen.  Just like how PHP got support
for just about everything else.  Either an existing PHP developer needed
it, or someone from the outside needed it badly enough to join the
project and make sure it happened.  If either happens in this case, then
PHP will get Silverlight support.

So, if you really want to see Silverlight support in PHP, you need to go
looking for someone who is interested in volunteering their time to make
it happen and remind them that PHP is a very open open source project
and it really isn't hard to contribute to it.

-Rasmus