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> Not sure why it's being compared to PHP probably just because PHP is now recognized widely as fundamentally bad design. Its just that many people who came la

> Not sure why it's being compared to PHP probably just because PHP is now recognized widely as fundamentally bad design. Its just that many people who came late to the party never really knew why, so they think to themselves, no this is actually great "no API boilerplate, fetch, tRPC anything.. You just define a function and call it, very nice.". And so the cycle continues...

DoesntMatter22 3y ago
What do you think is fundamentally bad about PHP exactly? It powers a large percentage of the web and does it quite well.
- coding123 3y ago
  I installed wp with a theme a few years ago and the box was turned into a zombie file dump. Modern php is still not there.
  - muglug 3y ago
    “I installed some third-party PHP software and didn’t turn on auto-updates for that software, and then my server got hacked” is a hit on your server admin skills, not PHP.
    - coding123 3y ago
      The attack vector was directly through php. Everything was upgraded to the latest. It was the theme that was hacked. How that is related to admin skills makes no sense.
      - DoesntMatter22 3y ago
        If it was the theme that was hacked then it wasn't PHP it was the design of wordpress and the theme specifically. Almost all hacks of wordpress are not due to workpress itself but due to the themes and extentions. If it was written in another language you'd have the same problems with the same architecture. Wordpress gets exploited because it's popular, not because it's written in PHP
- xyzzy4747 3y ago
  Lack of native async support for one
bottlepalm 3y ago
First php doesn't have that ability, except for Livewire which not many people use. Second php has come a long way, is type safe now, very fast, battle tested, easy to host and a perfectly fine option for building websites with. It's why it remains today the most popular framework used to build websites with.
mewpmewp2 3y ago
I'm still yet to see something as productive as PHP for web apps, ecommerce etc. You ask for a customised e-commerce shop with many standard features out of the box. How long will the Java or Rust engineers quote you? A year? Php? A week?
- azemetre 3y ago
  I've been working exclusively in javascript/node since 2015 and nothing in the JS ecosystem has ever felt as productive as rails or django or laravel. Maybe it's rose tinted glasses when working on those select few projects but compared to the node ecosystem I'm bashing my head against the wall updating libraries that provide no migration docs seeing alternative solutions saying "we don't support X, sorry." It's just all so frustrating, and I'm not even refactoring old code! It's two years old and already so brittle. I feel like you need to have extreme patience and foresight to correctly build maintainable JS apps. Libraries people recommend today will die out very quickly. It never really felt like this in python or ruby, but I could be having a selective memory.
  - bottlepalm 3y ago
    Have you used Next? I’ve found it more productive than anything because I can reuse the same code, DTOs, components, rendering, etc.. across server and client. It feels like I’m building a single app instead of dealing with using one code base to build the page and another to update it on the client. No extra JS frameworks needed. Plus TypeScript/ES6 is crazy productive - destructuring, structural typing, super expressive while being type safe as well. This server action stuff has made communicating with the server as easy as calling a function. So much overhead gone.
    - azemetre 3y ago
      I used Next a few years ago, I'm extremely weary of proprietary frameworks. Especially those with VC funds. I've been around long enough to knows what eventually happens to those tools (the company goes bust, no one wants to maintain it, and people move to new things). I'd be more of a fan of Vercel if they moved ownership of Next.js to the OpenJS Foundation and gave monetary support through that org instead. Obviously this would require movements to have react there as well; but if you cared about nurturing an open ecosystem it seems like the altruistic move. I'm exploring HTMX for certain use cases at work. That library feels like the only new innovation happening in the web dev world. All the other frameworks are way too "same-y." Angular, react, svelte, solid, vue; they're all riffing off each other which is fine, but none of them really offer something completely substantial from one another. Just different syntax, with different bundle sizes, with different performance. HTMX is just wildly different in that regard.

DoesntMatter22 3y ago

What do you think is fundamentally bad about PHP exactly? It powers a large percentage of the web and does it quite well.

coding123 3y ago
I installed wp with a theme a few years ago and the box was turned into a zombie file dump. Modern php is still not there.
- muglug 3y ago
  “I installed some third-party PHP software and didn’t turn on auto-updates for that software, and then my server got hacked” is a hit on your server admin skills, not PHP.
  - coding123 3y ago
    The attack vector was directly through php. Everything was upgraded to the latest. It was the theme that was hacked. How that is related to admin skills makes no sense.
    - DoesntMatter22 3y ago
      If it was the theme that was hacked then it wasn't PHP it was the design of wordpress and the theme specifically. Almost all hacks of wordpress are not due to workpress itself but due to the themes and extentions. If it was written in another language you'd have the same problems with the same architecture. Wordpress gets exploited because it's popular, not because it's written in PHP
xyzzy4747 3y ago
Lack of native async support for one

bottlepalm 3y ago

First php doesn't have that ability, except for Livewire which not many people use. Second php has come a long way, is type safe now, very fast, battle tested, easy to host and a perfectly fine option for building websites with. It's why it remains today the most popular framework used to build websites with.

mewpmewp2 3y ago

I'm still yet to see something as productive as PHP for web apps, ecommerce etc. You ask for a customised e-commerce shop with many standard features out of the box. How long will the Java or Rust engineers quote you? A year? Php? A week?

azemetre 3y ago
I've been working exclusively in javascript/node since 2015 and nothing in the JS ecosystem has ever felt as productive as rails or django or laravel. Maybe it's rose tinted glasses when working on those select few projects but compared to the node ecosystem I'm bashing my head against the wall updating libraries that provide no migration docs seeing alternative solutions saying "we don't support X, sorry." It's just all so frustrating, and I'm not even refactoring old code! It's two years old and already so brittle. I feel like you need to have extreme patience and foresight to correctly build maintainable JS apps. Libraries people recommend today will die out very quickly. It never really felt like this in python or ruby, but I could be having a selective memory.
- bottlepalm 3y ago
  Have you used Next? I’ve found it more productive than anything because I can reuse the same code, DTOs, components, rendering, etc.. across server and client. It feels like I’m building a single app instead of dealing with using one code base to build the page and another to update it on the client. No extra JS frameworks needed. Plus TypeScript/ES6 is crazy productive - destructuring, structural typing, super expressive while being type safe as well. This server action stuff has made communicating with the server as easy as calling a function. So much overhead gone.
  - azemetre 3y ago
    I used Next a few years ago, I'm extremely weary of proprietary frameworks. Especially those with VC funds. I've been around long enough to knows what eventually happens to those tools (the company goes bust, no one wants to maintain it, and people move to new things). I'd be more of a fan of Vercel if they moved ownership of Next.js to the OpenJS Foundation and gave monetary support through that org instead. Obviously this would require movements to have react there as well; but if you cared about nurturing an open ecosystem it seems like the altruistic move. I'm exploring HTMX for certain use cases at work. That library feels like the only new innovation happening in the web dev world. All the other frameworks are way too "same-y." Angular, react, svelte, solid, vue; they're all riffing off each other which is fine, but none of them really offer something completely substantial from one another. Just different syntax, with different bundle sizes, with different performance. HTMX is just wildly different in that regard.