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aimensasi
aimensasi
11,343 Points

C# vs PHP

In what case using C# is better than PHP for web development?

2 Answers

But on a serious note. Really it doesn't matter. It's all a product of what stack you or the company you work for is invested in. Are you a mostly Windows shop that is already developing C#? or already heavily invested in running IIS and Windows servers? It probably makes sense to just develop your site/web app/whatever in C#.

On the flip side if I'm a company that is mostly unix/Linux and all my employees are working on Macs or Ubuntu workstations I would be hard pressed to start developing my site/app/whatever on a Windows platform. No point investing that money when I have a completely free stack (PHP/MySQL) sitting right there.

And finally...what language do you like better? If I have been coding in ASP.Net/C#/MSSQL for the past 5 years I would be hard pressed to flip to PHP/MySQL and vice-versa.

Hope that make sense!

-Shawn

aimensasi
aimensasi
11,343 Points

thanks for clarifying.

When your boss pays you to code in C# :)