On Monday, 15 June 2015 at 23:53:06 UTC, Nick B wrote:
Hi.
There is a startup in New Zealand that I have some dealings
with at present. They have build most of their original code in
PHP, (as this was quick and easy) but they also use some C#.net
for interfacing to accounting appls on clients machines. The
core PHP application runs in the cloud at present and talks to
accountings applications in the cloud. They use the PHP symfony
framework.
High speed in not important, but accuracy, error handling, and
scalability is, as they are processing accounting transactions.
They have a new CEO on board, and he would like to review the
companies technical direction.
Their client base is small but growing quickly. I know that
PHP is not a great language, and my knowledge of D is
reasonable, while I have poor knowledge of C#.net.
Looking to the future, as volumes grow, they could:
1. Stay with PHP & C#.net, and bring on servers as volumes
grow.
2. Migrate to C#.net in time
3. Migrate to D in time.
Any comments or suggestions on the above?
Both C# and D sound like good fits there. It depends on whether
it's the sort of team who like to innovate and explore new
possibilities or whether they want a completely fleshed out,
stable ecosystem.
D can make boring work interesting: endless boiler-plate can be
neatly abstracted and many models* can be expressed JustRight™ as
opposed to being shoehorned in to a standard abstraction. C# is
also pretty good at this (sometimes), but D has a significant
edge.
