On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:23 AM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi gang: > > What do you people think of the .NET framework? > > Please provide your thoughts as to cost, maintenance, benefit, and whatever > else you think important. > > Thanks, > > tedd > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Powerful. Developers typically have to maintain a subscription to MSDN to be particularly effective, however the toolset is very polished. Additional costs come into play if you're using ASP.Net, as the servers require licenses, too. However ASP.Net MVC represents a significant upgrade over webforms ASP.Net (I've been developing websites using ASP.Net since version 1, and I can't begin to count the number of times the markup and postback model drove me nuts in the webforms version), and I'd have no problem using ASP.Net MVC for most any web application. Additionally, I use Rackspace Cloud for hosting, and it's pretty easy and cheap to spin up a Windows server when needed. The .Net technologies all integrate very nicely. For example, while the new mobile OS is really late to the party (I'm not sure it will be able to compete with Android and the iPhone), I can develop software for it using technologies which would seem very familiar to any web or desktop application developer. I particularly appreciate F#, a functional language that looks a lot like OCaml with a few .Net-centric additions, although C# has made some very nice improvements that bring functional programming techniques to it language, too. That all said, I still use PHP for most of my web projects. Why? PHP is fast, well-supported, cheap, and I like the community, although some projects do seem to benefit from .Net (e.g., if web services are interacting with a desktop app, it's easier to just build the whole thing using .Net technologies.) I could see the day when anything I would normally do in Flash is switched over to Silverlight. I just find it a better conceived development environment for RIA than Flash. Adam -- Nephtali: PHP web framework that functions beautifully http://nephtaliproject.com
