PHP just ate Rails for breakfast - oops!
I have found Ohloh to be a very interesting tool for supporting my FOSS research activities. Ohloh [here] is an online service that accumulates an enormous database of Free and Open Source Software development facts indexing a well over 3,000 projects and 220 million lines of source code and most amazingly, Ohloh has followed the history of these lines of code, to identify when and by whom all of this code was written. Recently an
article on Ohloh caught my sight titled “PHP eats Rails for Breakfast” [here]. The article states that PHP is still dominant over recently emerged Rails and Django frameworks. Ohloh made the measurement by the number of new lines of code and PHP is leadin the way over all other scripting languages thus one fifth of all open source code being written today is in PHP. Even the top 5 open source projects on Ohloh including PhpBB and MediaWiki are PHP based also destining PHP to be the language of choice in the FOSS world.
On the development side, the developers working with PHP are not increasing due to the fact that less projects on PHP are being initiated and developers are sticking to maturing existing products though, this may only be perceived as a speculation by Ohloh. I may agree with this speculation since I have seen PHP/MySQL based CMS like Drupal continuously growing and more and more developers from other FOSS frameworks or projects joining in to strengthen the project with a significant increase in its use.
January 3rd, 2007 at 7:11 am
ok i some what disagree with php as a winner … why becuase php is still running with old syntax .. what i mean to say here is that python and ruby are making tasks less complicated as with lists and sequences , variable handling and string handling as lists.. and as you can see on that article new projects are being started in python or ruby … and rails has a builtin ajax engine …and ruby is mostly popular in japan and related countries not in US or euorpe … so if somebody ask me i would go for python .. but still i prefer php for web and its for web