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Yeah that is a pretty poor reason, thanks for the nugget though that is pretty interesting. I could think of a bunch of legitimate reasons to want to ban it bu
by jpgvm 3y ago
Yeah that is a pretty poor reason, thanks for the nugget though that is pretty interesting.
I could think of a bunch of legitimate reasons to want to ban it but they would also hit a bunch of other languages as a result - hence why I was curious how it could be so specific.
It wouldn't surprise me if LOC for LOC PHP written today is much more secure than JS because of the same dynamic, just JS is the one that is now on 80% of new code written by beginners.
- beastcoast 3y agoEven worse than that - Amazon spent dozens of engineer years migrating their wiki from PHP MediaWiki to Java XWiki, pretty much for that reason only, and for dubious customer benefit. There was a very epic post mortem at the end of it.
- iLoveOncall 3y agoI didn't mention that in my original response, but the guy that wrote this document putting the nail in the coffin for PHP at Amazon said that ultimately it was too expensive to even TRY to assess PHP's safety. The amount he quoted was only 250,000$. Looking back it's so obvious that it was an opinionated crusade from one guy, I simply don't understand how one of the most influential programming languages ever got dismissed by a single dude with fallacious arguments in less than a thousand words.