ASP.NET C# and VB web development vs PHP

“A question we are asked on occasion is; should I build my web application using ASP.NET or PHP? In this brief article we detail our thoughts on why we work with ASP.NET and how this helps underpin our overall mission in being the best technical / development specialist agency in London. Before actually answering the question, one point to make is actually ASP.NET is a framework rather than a programming language, so really the comparison here should be between ASP.NET C#, or ASP.NET Visual Basic, and PHP. Between C# and VB, C# has emerged as the winner – really there’s not a great deal of difference between them these days other than syntax and of the two C# is more concise. The biggest reason though to pick C# over VB is that Microsoft and the community have chosen C# over VB and most example code and applications are now written in C# – ASP.NET MVC is also almost always programmed in C# in our experience. Onto the comparison of ASP.NET and PHP…. 1) ASP.NET has a steeper learning curve therefore many agencies will likely therefore program with PHP in-house as it can be more easily picked up and learned to a reasonable level. There are not many really advanced technical web development agencies like ourselves that just specialise in high quality ASP.NET development.”
www.webigence.com/blog/asp-dot-net-web-development-vs-php

Also, here’s a post from Hanselman from “back in the day” that is interesting if you haven’t already read it…

Introducing ASP.NET vNext

“ASP.NET vNext will take things to the next level. ASP.NET vNext will let you deploy your own version of the. You’ll be able to put ASP.NET vNext on your existing servers, any hoster, and Azure of course. ASP.NET vNext is: Cloud and server-optimized ASP.NET MVC and Web API have been unified into a single programming model No-compile developer experience Dependency injection out of the box Side by side – deploy the runtime and framework with your application NuGet everything – even the runtime itself All Open Source via the. ASP.NET vNext runs on Mono, on both Mac and Linux today.”
www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingASPNETVNext.aspx