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I also switch back and forth between two large projects written in different decades and it definitely gives an interesting perspective on this. Basically every
by giraffe_lady 4y ago
I also switch back and forth between two large projects written in different decades and it definitely gives an interesting perspective on this. Basically every time I'm in php I go "oh yeah I see why we do react now" and every time I'm in react I go "oh right I see why php still exists."
- gofreddygo 4y ago> ... I see why we do react now I switch between a fair variety frontend, backend myself and have never had that reaction. It's always, I could do exactly this in 2005 using jquery + JSP, it would not need any of these 1500 dependencies and the user would see absolutely no difference (except downloading 10 times more js today at 5G speeds) The scalability issues non-facebook scale webapps are trying to solve for do not exist. These apps will be dead before they reach a 10% of that scale and yet the project folks just don't get it. anecdotally, github project bookmarks I have 3-4 years ago won't even compile today. a large chunk of projects from 2010 still work. Including mine I wrote a decade ago as a newbie js junkie. Why ? Dependencies.
- tempest_ 4y agoTo be fair to PHP there have been quite a few improvements to the language in recent years. I even hear Laravel is pretty nice to use. I'll never know that stuff though because the PHP I generally encounter is 15 years old spaghetti.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoYeah I also hear that and also have no idea because I'm permanently in that 5.6 shit.
- cutler 4y agoPHP lost its identity with the release of PHP5 since when it is nothing more than an interpreted version of Java.