It would have been very difficult to get critical mass if Drupal was written in Java.
It's not that it would be difficult, it just means that not every Tom, Dick, and Harry that read a book on Java with no education or experience could contribute. I've seen Drupal, and Joomla, and other open source CMS products. In my opinion, there is a lot of garbage code and components out there that no one reviews and so the standard of coding has become a "read-a-tutorial" on PHP and I know what I am doing type of thing. Sql-Injections, form-hacks, they are all over the place with. Anyone can write PHP code (not necessarily good code) but not everyone can write Java code.
It would have been very difficult to get critical mass if Drupal was written in Java.
It's not that it would be difficult, it just means that not every Tom, Dick, and Harry that read a book on Java with no education or experience could contribute. I've seen Drupal, and Joomla, and other open source CMS products. In my opinion, there is a lot of garbage code and components out there that no one reviews and so the standard of coding has become a "read-a-tutorial" on PHP and I know what I am doing type of thing. Sql-Injections, form-hacks, they are all over the place with. Anyone can write PHP code (not necessarily good code) but not everyone can write Java code.
June 27, 2008 - 04:34