paddy_fields Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I was in pub last night and some guy was telling me about NodeJs, and that how his company have stopped employing PHP developers all together in favour of Node developers. The way he made it sound was essentially 'Why are you still using PHP?'. Is this a fair point of view to think that in the future NodeJs will be that big? I've tried to read up on it as much as I can, and I can see the features are attractive, but it doesn't immediately strike me as a language that could be used for large scale projects? He also said he'd beat me at pool. And didn't. So I question his authority. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Firstly, node.js is not a language. Secondly, most technologies have fanboys, node.js is flavour of the month. Don't get me wrong, it has plenty going for it. It does however have completely different use cases when compared to PHP for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy_fields Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 Ok, thank you. Sorry I meant platform! He did sound quite fanboyish in the way he was telling me - it was just about him saying about the employability that striked me as odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 it was just about him saying about the employability that striked me as odd PHP is still the most widespread used of the back end web languages and it's popularity is yet to wain. In fact, I would say that the language, community and job prospects (for quality devs) are still very much on the rise. The reason you don't hear that much about it, is because it has been on top for a long, long time. There is plenty of exciting stuff happening outside of the world of PHP, but there are also plenty happening within it. No harm (at all) in learning a new language/technology though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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