Comments on: Good Bye Appendix, Hello Google App Engine http://pajamadesign.com/2008/06/27/good-bye-appendix-hello-google-app-engine/ Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:48:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: eigentor http://pajamadesign.com/2008/06/27/good-bye-appendix-hello-google-app-engine/#comment-148 eigentor Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:43:37 +0000 http://pajamadesign.com/?p=22#comment-148 Well, it is not that far away: http://drupy.net/ But it raises the question what Drupal is. And after having spent somewhat more than one and a half year in the project the answer to me is: the community. The low entry barrier for developers is key and will be partly lost by moving on to a more sophisticated language. Not to speak of the gigantic task to port all modules, reimplement processes that sure change, debug it and so on and so on. But still: loads of problems we have now could be better solved in a better language that allows to control processes better. The PHP team appears unwilling to really take it much further, PHP 6 is a big disappointment in that respect. If one sees a comparison table of PHP feaatures against almost any language, one is ashamed still to use that strange dialect. So maybe in two or three years from now, things will move... Well, it is not that far away: http://drupy.net/
But it raises the question what Drupal is. And after having spent somewhat more than one and a half year in the project the answer to me is: the community.

The low entry barrier for developers is key and will be partly lost by moving on to a more sophisticated language. Not to speak of the gigantic task to port all modules, reimplement processes that sure change, debug it and so on and so on. But still: loads of problems we have now could be better solved in a better language that allows to control processes better. The PHP team appears unwilling to really take it much further, PHP 6 is a big disappointment in that respect.

If one sees a comparison table of PHP feaatures against almost any language, one is ashamed still to use that strange dialect.

So maybe in two or three years from now, things will move…

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