According to this new post on Ajax Magazine today, the most requested couple in the Land of Ajax is (*insert drumroll here*) - Ajax and PHP.
After about 6 month of running this AJAX Blog I was wondering which couple is the most requested on the net. Not because this website is mainly about PHP related technologies because I was trying to cover all usage of AJAX with Ruby,python,.NET, J2EE ... but AJAX PHP was the most requested couple overall! surprising!
- First of all there is more AJAX implementation with PHP
- PHP is still the scripting language the more easy to use and learn
- AJAX is also new, and it's more easy to learn with PHP compared to other languages
- Enduser don't worry about the language used, but about what the service is offering.
They also note that while there is a popularity of PHP in the minds of Ajax developers, there also aren't any commerical apps written in it yet - partially because of the opinions that corporate professionals have of PHP... |