PHP vs Others

There is actually a general problem with PHP so when selecting systems for Science PHP is not actually the best option.

One of the obvious problems in PHP is the lack of strongly typed variables. In Node.js and C# in .NET web backends can use strongly type variables. You can declare a decimal for financial values or double for science values. So there are some strong advantages to these systems. PHP can still be used for some lower priory web pages not for science or financials. Although you can display values you can’t use PHP for calculations as the values stored back cannot be guaranteed as to the precision.

So where I have looked at PHP, I would also look to investigate the use of Node.js and C# .NET. Decimal in C#.NET is a 16 byte (128 bit) variable. Information on Microsoft products is actually easier to find than Node.js.

So I might be a bit negative about WIndows 11 but Microsoft products are actually well supported. Having been a C# winforms developer using MS SQL and Oracle in the science arena I known data types do matter a great deal.

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