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I think you're mistaken to assume the beginner even has such a thing as a local development environment. When first learning PHP I wrote all my code on a $10/mo

I think you're mistaken to assume the beginner even has such a thing as a local development environment. When first learning PHP I wrote all my code on a $10/month web hosts, saving directly to the FTP server. Only later did I install a local dev (now made very easy with MAMP), learn about version control, PEAR etc.

mechanical_fish 15y ago
Yes, this is why PHP is easy for beginners. The standard practice is to edit directly on the server. It's a hard habit for a lot of PHP devs to break. It's very straightforward and direct: Edit a file, hit reload, see the result live. Something like, e.g., Heroku is awesome, yes, but not only do you need to learn how to debug a thing which you can't really touch in production, not only do you have to master the distinction between "the file I just edited here" and "the file on the remote machine"… but you have to use Git for that. I love Git, but years of watching PHP devs try to figure out Git have taught me just how intuitive it isn't.