ASP.NET还是PHP5？ [关闭]

Question

I've recently decided to get interested in server-side programming languages.

I already know a little of PHP and MySQL, but I stumbled upon ASP.net being referred to as future of the web, cutting-edge etc.

Since I'm at the beginning I can easily start learning whatever I choose to, but I'd like to hear some opinions first.

As far as my research goes PHP is cheaper when it comes to hosting sites while ASP.net is definitely harder to come by. Also Google, Facebook and Wikipedia uses it.

On the other side the ASP.net seems to have this great MVC Razor framework that judging by the sample videos on their site is brilliant and many things work out of the box.

While learning I'll create a little game, nothing fancy but it can possibly grow as time goes by and as I add new features.

So what do you think has brigter future? PHP or ASP.net?

I don't mind spending hours on learning, if it's hard then so be it. but I'd rather not learn a language that nobody will use making all my efforts a waste of time.

Answer 1

Are you going to be looking for a job as a web developer, or are you doing this as a hobbyist programmer?

If you're doing it for fun, you could really go either way.

My experience (I'm an ASP.NET developer using C#) has been there are a LOT more ASP.NET jobs than PHP jobs. I base this on some feedback my brother-in-law has gotten from recruiters as well as my own LinkedIn/Monster hits - right now, at least in my part of the US, there's more demand for ASP.NET developers than PHP.

And if you learn .NET 4.0, you get the whole Microsoft AJAX framework and the associated toolkit out of the box.