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In the past I sort-of agreed and even chose PHP in a few instances when the project was tiny enough that ease of deployment was a major factor. Nowadays with s
by mpartel 7y ago
In the past I sort-of agreed and even chose PHP in a few instances when the project was tiny enough that ease of deployment was a major factor.
Nowadays with something like Heroku or App Engine, language has almost no impact on ease of deployment, and even custom deployments are pretty easy once you've practiced the docker/systemd script + apache/nginx proxy dance once or twice.
- eyelidlessness 7y agoIf we're giving PHP credit here, I think we can say with some confidence that the ease of spinning up a shared server with PHP and MySQL inspired the kinds of super simple infrastructure products like Heroku that are now commonplace. The notion that PHP is easier to deploy used to be true, it's not something that should be dismissed, it's even a pretty big deal. It's a walk up experience that inspired an improved DX for every other mainstream environment. But they've caught up and that's worth acknowledging too.