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Simplicity is PHP – everything is included and you can get things done in minutes.

• teataster 5y ago
  That's easy, not simple. I am not saying PHP is not simple.
  • runawaybottle 5y ago
    What’s involved in building a hello world web server in java and deploying it? One wonders why PHP is not the gold standard that all languages should be aspiring to achieve with regards to going from zero to running server (if we are to borrow the good and leave the bad).
• dgb23 5y ago
  PHP has some neat concepts and attributes. It’s stateless, „serverless“, flexible, fast and has batteries included. This leads to ease and some simplicity. But it’s plagued by footguns on one side and overengineered „OO“ frameworks on the other. These lead to complexity and suffering. The language requires too much discipline and „special“ knowledge for my taste.
• cutler 5y ago
  Since idiomatic PHP is effectively pseudo-Java it has the same incidental complexity as Java.