Drupal Competes As a Framework, Unofficially

tgeller writes "Drupal developer Ben Buckman attended the BostonPHP Framework Bake-Off with the hopes of pitting the CMS against CakePHP, Symfony, Zend, and CodeIgniter. He was told that he couldn't because Drupal is 'not a framework,' a response he felt was 'coder-purist snobbery ("it's not a framework if you build any of it in a UI").' So he decided to unofficially compete in the back of the room by accepting the challenge of building a job-posting app in 30 minutes, while the official competitors did the same from the stage. He recorded the results, which are impressive. In the process he raised the question: What is a framework, anyway?"

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Drupal is shit. PHP is shit.

[Anonymous Coward]

Can we please stop talking about these projects?

PHP is a slow, crufty Java wannabe with no VM, and Drupal is like PHP-Nuke crossbred with Wordpress and fertilized with the souls of the damned.

Together, PHP and Drupal are largely responsible for turning the once-profitable web application business into a playground for teenagers and just-out-of-school "developers".

Once the business folk found out how cheap it could be to get their shitty web application hacked together by a throwaway kid-coder with halitosis, a stained T-shirt and stinky feet, that was it. Web developers will never have the privilege of writing decent code for decent pay ever again.

If PHP magically stopped working one day, salaries would rocket upward.