Posted by Simon Shaw on 11/28/07 17:25

I am that rare point in a developers career where I am starting a new
web based project and I have a 4-8 week slot to train myself in the
most appropriate technology for this task. As a non-web based C#/C++
programmer with over 14 years of experience this means that although I
have a sound understanding of the software development, design and
implementation, I am probably going to have to learn a new language/
framework from scratch (if I am going to be honest this is one of the
main attractions for me). My goals for the project are as follows:
1) Highly scalable web site (millions of hits a day)
2) Backend database probably with shards. Static data store for
uploaded media files. Flex2 (or equivalent) front end.
3) Team of 3 programmers (including myself).
4) After initial period for learning technology, short amount of time
(2-3 months) to get to proof of concept.

My initial technology research pointed to PHP, however lately I have
noticed a growing interest in Grails.
Has anybody in this group had any experience developing in Grails? Is
it a stable platform? Is something about PHP inherently superior to
Grails? If I want to attract the coolest software engineers to my
project which would be more attractive Grails or PHP?

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