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Julian Finkler
Julian Finkler

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Server Side: Dart vs. PHP

#poll #dart #php #language

I'm courious, please comment 🙂

If you've to choose between Dart and PHP:

Which one do you prefer for server side programming?:
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Why?:
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Why not (Dart|PHP)?:
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kyorohiro (kiyohiro kawamura) • • Edited

If for a small job, I choice PHP.
Because, PHP has many developer, and useful framework for web.We can do fast develop and fast release at PHP.

If for my project, I choice Dart.
Because, Dart is easy to develop web service by strong type and smart editors and IDE.

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Sayida Humaira •

where i can find good tutorial for dart lang? thank you :)

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Frédéric Bouchery • • Edited

PHP is designed for app on server side, and Dart for app on client side. So, use both.

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Julian Finkler • • Edited

From a performance perspective on server side, Dart is ahead of PHP:

Sample:

wrk http://localhost:1337 -c 8 -d 60 -t 8 
/// Dart import 'dart:io'; Future main() async { var server = await HttpServer.bind( InternetAddress.loopbackIPv4, 1337, ); print('Listening on localhost:${server.port}'); await for (HttpRequest request in server) { request.response.write('Hello World'); await request.response.close(); } } 
<?php // PHP // php -S localhost:1337 header('Content-Type: text/plain'); echo "Hello World"; 
$ php --version PHP 7.3.11 (cli) (built: Feb 29 2020 02:50:36) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.3.11, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies with Xdebug v2.7.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2019, by Derick Rethans 
$ dart --version Dart VM version: 2.7.2 (Mon Mar 23 22:11:27 2020 +0100) on "macos_x64"

Looks very interesting, I think I should give it a try 🙂

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Eljay •

How about this...

<?php use Swoole\Http\Server; use Swoole\Http\Request; use Swoole\Http\Response; $server = new Swoole\HTTP\Server("127.0.0.1", 9501); $server->on("start", function (Server $server) { echo "Awesomeness of PHP has been initialized\n"; }); $server->on("request", function (Request $request, Response $response) { $response->header("Content-Type", "text/plain"); $response->end("Hello Philippines!\n"); }); $server->start();
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Frédéric Bouchery •

yes, but PHP is more simple (just 2 lines), so it's better for newbies, simple to edit, to maintain, etc. :)