What's your favorite programming language?

[IM@D]

I fell in love with C++ since the first assignment

[Freddy]

For me It's mostly PHP and JavaScript
Even though JavaScript could take over PHP in some future, i still love both

[Google]

Originally Posted by Freddy

For me It's mostly PHP and JavaScript
Even though JavaScript could take over PHP in some future, i still love both

Could you please explain to me how would a client side language like javascript take over a server side language like PHP?

[Kingroudy]

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[Freddy]

Javascript is making major advancements on the server side such as in Node.JS

In theory it could take over php given a few years.

[SysTaMatIcS]

isnt all android apps based on java ?

[xcoder]

Originally Posted by SysTaMatIcS

isnt all android apps based on java ?

Java & JavaScript are two different languages.

[Tinman]

Originally Posted by Jean

I learned a bit of asp.net and that was enough to hate it. I love PHP the most, i feel good when writing it. Also Javascript (especially JQuery & JSON Libraries) excites me enough to build a nice php based puzzle.

Care to explain why?

by the way asp.net is not a programming language. Did you write in C#? IronPython? VB.Net?

[Google]

Originally Posted by Freddy

Javascript is making major advancements on the server side such as in Node.JS

In theory it could take over php given a few years.

If I'd take it in the context you are talking about, this is one of many heresies that is not going anywhere. Such event-driven type of languages is better be used only for GUI (as a model for interaction). Using event-driven languages for other purposes (taking over PHP) is dangerous for many reasons like not being thread-safe, need to write code within the event handler for each possible value of various values in the program, and requires the programmer to keep an eye on shared variables to avoid what we call "ripple effects".
This implies code that is complex (Scalability?) and error prone (Security?).
Now these are some of many reasons why this language fails. Could Node.JS in theory take over PHP? No.

[xcoder]

Originally Posted by Google

If I'd take it in the context you are talking about, this is one of many heresies that is not going anywhere. Such event-driven type of languages is better be used only for GUI (as a model for interaction). Using event-driven languages for other purposes (taking over PHP) is dangerous for many reasons like not being thread-safe, need to write code within the event handler for each possible value of various values in the program, and requires the programmer to keep an eye on shared variables to avoid what we call "ripple effects".
This implies code that is complex (Scalability?) and error prone (Security?).
Now these are some of many reasons why this language fails. Could Node.JS in theory take over PHP? No.

You're comparing oranges to apples, Freddy didn't mean Node.js will replace PHP, he was just answering you that Javascript doesn't only work in a web browser but also anywhere; it's just a language that uses bunch of APIs be it the browser using DOM or server side using sockets, GD or any other API.

What Node.js guys did is that they used Google Javascript v8 engine with their own APIs on the server side. There's nothing magical in that.

Node.js on the other hand is more used as a networking programming language at least for now, this might change later.
It's just awesome for so many things, i advice you to watch the video below:

You Tube

You Tube

Javascript is quite fast for an interpreted language, the DOM is what actually makes it slow in browsers.
Prototype-based programming is not common but quite flexible and featured, if done well, it will be as good as client side programming if not better.