2011/5/20 Brian Moon <br...@moonspot.net>: >> I think it's the exact opposite - the less C code we need the better. >> Developing C code is more work. Maintaining C code is more work. >> Distributing C code is more complicated. The less this is needed, the >> faster PHP is, the better for everybody (except C programmers ;-) ) > > I was with you until "The less this is needed, the faster PHP is, the better > for everybody". PHP is just a glue language on top of an awesome library of > C. If more people would embrace that and quit including 1000 classes to show > a simple web page then it would be better for everybody. >
Indeed. But how awesome would it be if you could talk to a c library using userspace PHP? We do have a large community that thinks c is scary and don't dare to checkout the source to even fix a typo - but if they could write an extension in PHP... :) -Hannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
