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I agree with all of those points, except that it does have one thing going for it - it is easy for end-users to deploy PHP apps: FTP your files onto any random

I agree with all of those points, except that it does have one thing going for it - it is easy for end-users to deploy PHP apps: FTP your files onto any random cheapo shared web-host, done. I’m amazed that it’s been so long and no other language comes close to that :(

viraptor 4y ago
Re-deploy, sure. Deploy? PHP packages still need installing, modules need enabling/configuring, PHP version needs to be chosen, etc. Unless it's a tiny project, the days of "just put the files on FTP" are almost gone. Meanwhile for small, low traffic projects, serverless services are pretty close to the "just copy to deploy" model. And fly.io is all trivial for quite a few frameworks.