Re: The future of PHP

At 20:23 29-08-01, Alexander Skwar wrote:

However, I don't think it's right to say that this will never ever happen, like you do. And I also do think, that it's counter-productive from you to say something like this. I mean, it would be okay (with me), if you kinda ignored this. But what's so bad about PHP-GTK that you speak so strongly against it?

I am *not* speaking against it, not strongly or or otherwise. I'm really not :) As a matter of fact, some parts in the Zend Engine 2 are going to address issues that Andrei (that wrote the PHP-GTK module). I think that the ability to develop GUI apps using PHP is very cool, and I'm pretty sure that PHP developers who need to develop simple (as in control-based) GUI's are very likely to do it in PHP-GTK, which is good. What I *am* saying is that GUI apps are not PHP's main strength, and thus, should not be its main focus. If we try to push and market PHP, we should pick reasonable objectives - and pushing it as a platform is much more attainable than as a good-for-everything language. This objective is quite ambitious on its own. Zeev