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April 26th, 2005 at 4:34 am
As someone who knows both languages I am going to have to agree with your sentiments. I do tend to think that the strictness of Java results in a longer development process, but maybe only because when using Java I get all OO purist and with PHP I don’t since I don’t have string objects, list objects, etc.
Does anyone else feel that the PHP camp seems to feel more threatened by Java than vice versa?
April 26th, 2005 at 3:50 pm
“Does anyone else feel that the PHP camp seems to feel more threatened by Java than vice versa?”
Given the general lack of this kind of article from the “PHP camp” and the regular PHP articles from the “Java camp” I’d say vice versa. These articles creating these straw men about how the other “camp” just don’t understand us get very old. The PHP developers I know understand the many benefits and strengths of Java and think it is a excellent system.
One difference you may be picking up on as “threatened” is simply a fact of open source life. Java is marketed by Sun, IBM, et al. .NET is marketed by Microsoft. Millions are spent for mindshare. Open source software is marketed by its community so some if the passion you be feeling is simply “marketing.”
April 26th, 2005 at 8:42 pm
> regular PHP articles from the “Java camp”
I have been monitoring several Java blogs and forums for years, haven’t seen many articles actualy, which prompted me to write in the first place.
> so some if the passion you be feeling is simply “marketing.”
If that is “marketing” they sure are doing a poor job at it.
April 27th, 2005 at 6:13 am
“If that is “marketing” they sure are doing a poor job at it.”
It is either “a poor job at it” or nothing at all, so they seem to choose “a poor job at it”. Sort of a metaphor if you can see it.
April 28th, 2005 at 3:05 am
@Jackson
> Does anyone else feel that the PHP camp seems to feel more threatened by Java than vice versa?
Very much so
July 11th, 2005 at 7:59 am
Christopher Thompson makes a good point - in general, the PHP community is not very interested in Java. I would say Ruby on Rails is the only thing close to a “concern” for PHP, but I don’t think many developers are too concerned about what programming language they choose anyway.
The average Java developer is a 9-5 programmer, where the average PHP (or mod_perl, or Ruby on Rails) developer is a bit more passionate. There are plenty of exceptions, but this seems to be the primary reason behind the Java community’s fear - a majority of them don’t want to have to learn something new if their language becomes obsolete.
To Java developers, I say don’t worry. PHP’s popularity continues to grow, but Java still has a strong presence and will continue to for at least another decade.