On 12-07-15 at 10:26am, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > On 15 July 2012 03:08, Nick M. Daly <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So, since there is a lot of concern about including PHP on the > > > > What's are the issues with PHP?
The issue with PHP is the high risk of security flaws. It is a mixture of a technical and social issue: The code itself has a track record of many horrible bugs and is easy to write buggy code with, and the community around the language generally encourage a sloppy coding style not caring enough about security flaws. PHP is quite popular, but contrary to big PHP using sites like Facebook, FreedomBox has no sysadmin to check the log files and intervene if (or when!) something goes wrong. I work as a sysadmin but charge clients independently on time spent. That gives an incentive to invest my time in optimal _initial_ setup and use least possible time (ideally none!) on _maintenance_. So I try hard to avoid languages like PHP, and also rapid frameworks like Rails (Ruby) and Django (Python), because IMO they have similar worrisome patterns of encouraging sloppy coding, even if the underlying language may have a sane security-aware code and culture. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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