Twitter on PHP versus ASP.NET

Anna — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:27:00 GMT

NETTUTS is a good website for web development and design tutorials: http://nettuts.com/.

Jeffrey Way, the person behind the NETTUTS website also maintains a NETTUTS profile on both Facebook and Twitter where his latest statuses caught my eye.

Turns out he innocently posted an update to TWITTER in support of ASP.NET with a slight knock against PHP, and apparently that brought a lot of responses from other Twitterers, both ASP.NET and PHP developers on PHP vs. ASP.NET.

Here are NETTUT’s tweets in order of their appearance:

I just received a fantastic series of about 25 ASP.NET (C#) videos that we'll be posting on the site. Really excited to offer these.
People are quick to attack ASP.NET - mostly because of ignorance. Take a look at what corporations are looking for. You won't see much PHP.
Not to say that I don't love PHP; I do...very much so.
Obviously you can still find a job in PHP. But in general, big corporations don't use it. Does your bank use PHP?
@zacharyjohnson - Are you sure you know the definition of "agnostic"? I'm stating facts, not opinions. I love both.
Last tweet. There's more than plenty to go around. Many successful companies use PHP. But, from my experiences, the majority of them don't
I'm sorry I brought it up. I never said that big companies don't use PHP. These are just statistics that I'm reciting. I love PHP too!

LOL!

To read the responses from other Twitterers which NETTUTS was reacting to, check out this search for replies posted the same day:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&ands=&phrase=&ors=&nots=&tag=&lang=en&from=&to=&ref=nettuts&near=&within=15&units=mi&since=2009-01-23&until=2009-01-23&rpp=50

Being on the Expression Web team, although I work at Microsoft, I could care less whether you choose PHP or ASP.NET since Expression Web supports both PHP and ASP.NET anyway!

Anna Ullrich : ASP.NET

Twitter on PHP versus ASP.NET