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Long live PHP. 15 years of PHP dev work. Games, mobile apps, health care, etc. I have been unemployed for 2 days in 15 years. PHP runs %80 of the internet. Ta

Long live PHP. 15 years of PHP dev work. Games, mobile apps, health care, etc. I have been unemployed for 2 days in 15 years. PHP runs %80 of the internet. Talk to anyone at facebook that wears a suit on friday -- they code PHP (and it seems to scale for them). I think I will be 90 years old hacking on PHP.If you really don't like how the arguments are passed just use an IDE. Or get stuck with real problems like a transition from python2 to 3. (wtf)

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sodapopcan 6y ago
"Use an IDE" is never an answer to shitty language design. Shitty language design is shitty language design. That said, I cut my teeth on PHP and still have a fondness for it. It's especially great being able to deploy small little backend-driven pages with rsync or sftp in a pinch. I just discovered other languages and environments I enjoyed working in much better.
- blunte 6y ago
  If there's room for Javascript, there's room for PHP. Both are sloppy, inferior languages, but both can do anything you need. And unfortunately, both have immense momentum from being first in the web game.
  - sodapopcan 6y ago
    Ha, I was going to make a comment along these lines. I didn't mention the languages I enjoy over PHP but I can assure you JavaScript ain't one of them. I don't hate JS but as a server-side language I would pick PHP over it any day.
  - aussieguy1234 6y ago
    It's worth pointing out back end JavaScript didn't really start to take off until the 0.x versions of NodeJS came out
  - pdimitar 6y ago
    > If there's room for Javascript, there's room for PHP. PHP doesn't run in the browser. For browser programming there's literally almost no choice. TypeScript seems to be an improvement but even that compiles down to JS. Same for ReasonML and BuckleScript and Elm.
    - blunte 6y ago
      My point is that both PHP and Javascript owe their popularity not due to their merits as languages, but rather to being in the right place at the right time - time and positioning.
      - pdimitar 6y ago
        Yeah, sadly this is true. Inertia is a much bigger motivator than merit for many. I still struggle accepting that as a life philosophy.
  - georgesC 6y ago
    Unlike php, I can see Javascript slowly disappearing thanks to Wasm.
Ayesh 6y ago
Argument order problems are somewhat over with named params: https://php.watch/versions/8.0/named-parameters https://php.watch/versions/8.0/named-parameters
wp381640 6y ago
I'm old enough to remember GoPHP5 and the shit storm that transition was Kinda funny having php devs shit on python backwards-compat
mattl 6y ago
80%? Of what?

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sodapopcan 6y ago

"Use an IDE" is never an answer to shitty language design. Shitty language design is shitty language design. That said, I cut my teeth on PHP and still have a fondness for it. It's especially great being able to deploy small little backend-driven pages with rsync or sftp in a pinch. I just discovered other languages and environments I enjoyed working in much better.

blunte 6y ago
If there's room for Javascript, there's room for PHP. Both are sloppy, inferior languages, but both can do anything you need. And unfortunately, both have immense momentum from being first in the web game.
- sodapopcan 6y ago
  Ha, I was going to make a comment along these lines. I didn't mention the languages I enjoy over PHP but I can assure you JavaScript ain't one of them. I don't hate JS but as a server-side language I would pick PHP over it any day.
- aussieguy1234 6y ago
  It's worth pointing out back end JavaScript didn't really start to take off until the 0.x versions of NodeJS came out
- pdimitar 6y ago
  > If there's room for Javascript, there's room for PHP. PHP doesn't run in the browser. For browser programming there's literally almost no choice. TypeScript seems to be an improvement but even that compiles down to JS. Same for ReasonML and BuckleScript and Elm.
  - blunte 6y ago
    My point is that both PHP and Javascript owe their popularity not due to their merits as languages, but rather to being in the right place at the right time - time and positioning.
    - pdimitar 6y ago
      Yeah, sadly this is true. Inertia is a much bigger motivator than merit for many. I still struggle accepting that as a life philosophy.
- georgesC 6y ago
  Unlike php, I can see Javascript slowly disappearing thanks to Wasm.

Ayesh 6y ago

Argument order problems are somewhat over with named params: https://php.watch/versions/8.0/named-parameters https://php.watch/versions/8.0/named-parameters

wp381640 6y ago

I'm old enough to remember GoPHP5 and the shit storm that transition was Kinda funny having php devs shit on python backwards-compat

mattl 6y ago

80%? Of what?