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PHP is unique in several ways: it's especially designed for the web, is a Web framework itself, comes with everything inbuilt, has C/Java syntax, has a shared n

by frik 9y ago

PHP is unique in several ways: it's especially designed for the web, is a Web framework itself, comes with everything inbuilt, has C/Java syntax, has a shared nothing architecture, replaced VB as the most popular language for beginners, is used by most websites, is easy to use just drop a php file to Apache www dir. You simply can't objectively compare PHP to other languages because it's different to all others, it's unique. And due it's wide spread usage and earlier non-academic approach it still gets (rather unfairly) some bad reputation. Anyway PHP 7.2 is great, and Go too.

jstewartmobile 9y ago
But a pokemon character was rather unkind to it back in 2012, so here you are. Two years after that, Mickens wrote a glorious takedown[0] of Javascript--which must not have been as glorious as I thought--since people still seem hell-bent on using in as many places as possible. Alan Kay said that computing is now a pop culture... [0] https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/towashitallaway.pdf https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/towashitalla...
- spdionis 9y ago
  I mean, the way people bash PHP and praise javascript is completely ridiculous. The two languages are comparable at best in the amount of warts they have, while my firm opinion is that the js ecosystem is the most horrible thing in the world.
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  - jstewartmobile 9y ago
    AMEN!