In this article you will learn what to choose between PHP and ASP.NET.
There is a battle of the heavyweights going on over the internet, as whether PHP is a better language compared to ASP.NET. As the battle between PHP and ASP.Net rages on, it is important to make a blunt comparison between the two languages, so that other developers with not so strong opinions are not caught in this battle between the two. Both of these languages are used in large web based applications. Some successful websites like Facebook, Google, and Twitter etc, also use these languages. So there should not be any doubt on the ability of any of these two programming languages. About PHP PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. It originated as a scripting tool that quickly made its way over the internet as being the most used language, thanks to its simplicity, ease of learning and a larger developer community. According to an estimate, PHP is installed on over 244 million websites with server support from virtually all major hosts. The best part of PHP is that it’s free and boasts a number of frameworks which simplifies web development. The chart below shows the most popular PHP versions: About ASP.NET ASP.Net was developed by Microsoft to provide developers with an scripting tool for easy building of web pages and web applications. It is a replacement to ASP (Active Server Pages), another platform developed by Microsoft. ASP.Net code can be written using any .Net supported language, which makes it especially popular among .NET developers. On an early stage, IE web browser helped Microsoft increase the popularity of ASP.Net. The chart below shows the most popular ASP.NET versions: Comparison PHP and ASP.NET are two programming languages with plethora of distinctions and vocal proponents. However, when we dig deeper and take a holistic view, a lot of differences come up. I have compiled them and tried to reach to a conclusion based on my own opinion.
Conclusion You can find a lot about the worthiness of PHP over ASP.NET to debate on, and probably there won’t be an end to this fight. The problem mainly is that both of them are good in their own place, but people who have been staunchly using PHP for many years now, some of them for more than a decade, would certainly not like to go for the new ASP.net. The price to be paid is quite high and learning a whole new syntax and getting used to it are some of the reasons why PHP is still so popular. Unless you are already familiar with the .NET framework or want to stick to Microsoft technologies, there is no distinguishable need to use ASP.NET over PHP. PHP can do everything that ASP.NET can, and it can do it for free.
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