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by joshanthony 4694 days ago
I work in a startup that chose .NET for our product and admittedly we only did it because one of our developers had a lot of experience with .NET. I definitely wouldn't use .NET a second time, mostly because as a startup I value open tools and freedom. I started working in startups to get away from corporate bureaucracy. And now with hindsight I now know that "just because your dev has experience" is never a good idea to do anything.

On that note - I'm working with PHP's Laravel framework for my next project, and despite the performance tradeoff it's an absolute dream to work with.
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krapp 4694 days ago
What sort of project, and how bad is the performance?

I've got a couple of things cooking with Laravel 4 myself but haven't finished anything yet. I'm curious about your impressions.

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joshanthony 4691 days ago
I don't have any proper metrics but I can say it's not bad at all - only when compared to C# :P

I built a small system for internal communication (sort of like a an internal twitter/facebook)

I could not say enough good things about Laravel. It really is the future of PHP.

The only issue I've had with it is in deployment - because of composer it's a bit fiddly - I ended up using the PAAS Engine Yard for testing deployment (and I will use them for proper deployment) because it was super easy with them (just more expensive).

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