Alexei@Nitobi

So Ektron and SitePoint recently published the results of a survey indicating that PHP developers report they are far more likely to switch to Rails than any other framework (ASP.NET, Java, Perl, Coldfusion, Classic ASP, and Python included). I’m not all that surprised. PHP is part of LAMP, and Rails also quite complementary to that technology stack.

(taken from http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/10/09/php-developers-most-likely-to-switch-to-rails/)

I think too that there are cultural (if you will..) reasons why this might happen. I have found the PHP community to be quite aligned with open source and free software, and generally interested in new and bleeding-edge technology. Also, Rails guys and PHP guys dress the same and use Pechule Oil (ok jokes!). Rails still suffers from some of the same issues that PHP has.. eg: Unicode support (actually rails is worse).. and one thing that PHP developers will lose when moving to rails is access to the Windows API (should they want to port ASP.NET apps or something).

PHP Developers willing to stay the course will be treated to some exciting improvements and cleanup in PHP 6.. including full Unicode support (already mentioned), and an improved SOAP interface.

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