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Please correct title - it's how to prepare for a PHP technical interview.
by poo-yie 5y ago
Please correct title - it's how to prepare for a PHP technical interview.
- aardvarkr 5y agoAgreed… this is super specific to php and tbh I’m surprised anyone is still using it in industry
- klodolph 5y agoWhy wouldn't people be using PHP in industry? It shouldn't be a surprise that we're still using PHP, given that we're still using MUMPS (or M).
- mandeepj 5y ago> this is super specific to php and tbh I’m surprised anyone is still using it in industry LOL! Facebook and Wayfair are using it among https://trio.dev/blog/companies-using-php https://trio.dev/blog/companies-using-php
- klodolph 5y agoFacebook uses Hack. Hack is to PHP what C++ is to C, sort of. You can take PHP code and run it as Hack code, sometimes, but there are lots of reasons why PHP code might not be valid Hack code these days (Hack has diverged from upstream). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language)
- echelon 5y agoAcross n languages you have m libraries that need to be maintained. As new languages are introduced or as existing ones gain market share, the maintainers of old libraries are stretched thin. You need to have n*m maintainers, and the number of concerns to keep track of continues to grow. Perl has fallen. Fortran is legacy. Ruby isn't as hot as it once was. At some point, new people won't want to learn an old language. This is when a language begins to wither away. It will happen to PHP. Eventually (in the technological limit) it'll happen to everything.
- barrenko 5y agoSeing a lot of new PHP and Ruby ads locally.
- sergiomattei 5y agoThis elitism is, frankly, embarrassing in our industry.
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- brian_cloutier 5y agoIt depends on what you mean by elitism. Languages are not undifferentiated, it is perfectly possible to talk about some languages being "better" than other languages, especially when you are talking about specific tasks. The parent doesn't make any reference to PHP programmers, and doesn't appear to be looking down on any person or class of people, so this doesn't seem to be the embarrassing brand of elitism. There are precious few good reasons to use PHP in 2021, a world of much better languages with much stronger ecosystems than the world of two decades ago when PHP was a reasonable choice.
- b112 5y agoIt's hilarious and reflects incredibly bad upon author. C has more problems than PHP, yet as with PHP, it is dominant worldwide. Just the linux kernel alone, its scope, forks, usage makes C god. There are always a lot of "but!" statements to this reality, but they don't change fact. PHP, modern PHP is a different beast than a decade, 20 years ago. Imagine if C took on some of the properties of rust, but was still just called C. And used as C. That's PHP, you bunch of hosers!
- jordanab 5y agoNot a PHP developer myself, but in my area most web development is still done in PHP. The modern PHP language is a lot like any other high level language now, but the main attraction of PHP are (still) the massively popular (and stable) open-source frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel, WordPress, Magento etc. A big supply of developers and high development pace of custom apps through such frameworks is why it will remain the defacto choice for a lot of webdev shops (at least in my area).
- skeeter2020 5y agoNever had a good opinion of PHP personally, but wow, you do know it's used in some very big and successful companies and solutions right?