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A poor developer can make any tool look bad.
by hotz 5y ago
A poor developer can make any tool look bad.
- nalekberov 5y agosure, but why would you use poor tool in the first place?
- archerx 5y agoWhat is your experience to make such ignorant statements?
- nalekberov 5y agoI will just leave these here: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ https://software-gunslinger.tumblr.com/post/47131406821/php-is-meant-to-die https://software-gunslinger.tumblr.com/post/47131406821/php-...
- bowersbros 5y agoThat first article is a decade old.
- xigoi 5y agoThe article has been updated over the decade. It mentions which things have been fixed — most of them haven't.
- kgeist 5y agoI used to hate PHP with passion myself (having read those articles too) before I had to take on a large project which used modern practices (PHP 7+, latest Symfony) and I can say it's been a surprisingly smooth sailing so far, most of the time you use nicely designed abstractions over the core APIs provided by the framework (or its modules) and don't use built-in functions directly. The actual annoyances I notice everyday are things like inconsistent argument order in array_* functions (people prefer to use them directly), but you quickly get used to it and there's not that many of such functions in day-to-day work. What you usually do is generic stuff like defining models, writing controllers etc. and most of the time it doesn't feel much different from other enterprisey languages I've used such as C# or Java. From time to time you have to use some arcane PHP function because the framework doesn't provide it for you but there's a custom, at our company at least, to wrap such functions in nice utility classes once and forget they exist.
- archerx 5y agoAh I see, you partake in cargo cult development. Thank you for elaborating and have a good day.
- nalekberov 5y agocheck, next PHP fan boy please.
- sgjohnson 5y agoThose articles are 10 years old.