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I have a project which is in the R&D phase at a university institution. If this was a start-up I would use some language which is fast to work with like PHP or Ruby. Considering that speed is less of an issue in my current project and stability, support, quality, and sanity are more important, is PHP suitable here? Or is Java still the language for such projects?
Thanks,
Alex
If you wan’t to move slowly and still use PHP, you can use Zend Framework or Symfony for example. It will help if you have never used them before.
For stability, support, quality, etc. you should have things like Unit-testing, Continuous Integration and a good framework (with a big community and support).
In the face of PHP, you have all of that (PHPUnit, phpUnderControl, Zend/Symfony as a great frameworks) so PHP is a very good choice, in fact a better choice than Java. (Java web servers are harder to maintain).
As a PHP developer, that’s my opinion.