Ölbaum’s Delirium

Jens Alfke — whose blog I discovered today after he'd been Microsofted — doesn't like PHP anymore and I share some of his reasons. My pet peeves with PHP are:

1. Crappy Unicode support (none in PHP 4, remember?);
2. Needs to be recompiled every time a new extension is needed;
3. Poor set of default extensions (see 2);
4. Overlapping but not identical feature sets in different extensions (see 2 and 3);
5. Nasty installation-dependent differences in behaviour (as Jens says so well).

Jens is looking at Ruby On Rails. So should I.

Update: Jens removed both posts. So much for permalinks.