@preinheimer I talk to a lot of companies... and hardly any are building or maintaining custom extensions. Everyone is just using PHP, or, if the work cannot be done in PHP, calling out to web services in other languages to do that work.
@preinheimer@mwop Other than Yahoo I only came across one company that used “extensions contain business logic” and it was run by old PHP contributor Ilia Alshanetsky.
@preinheimer Any more, the language is almost never the bottleneck. And when it comes to migrating from a legacy system, if that legacy system has a database, that's usually the most expedient way to attack it (i.e., build a PHP app around that database). (This is the core of most app modernization, as those legacy systems are almost ALL database-centric anyways.)
If I had a nickel every time I begged someone not to try to replace a legacy system all at once, but instead to attack bits and pieces in a logical way by working with the data... well a nickel isn't worth much, but I could certainly afford to tip after buying a really fancy cup of coffee.
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