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I started using PHP for work back in the PHP 4 days when I started my career. As I grew in my abilities, appreciation for more advanced OOP concepts, and stric
by plz-remove-card 3y ago
I started using PHP for work back in the PHP 4 days when I started my career.
As I grew in my abilities, appreciation for more advanced OOP concepts, and stricter typing, so did PHP, we kind of evolved together over the years. However, I'd be hard pressed to choose PHP for a green field project today.
I wonder if I'd have just started off immediately using something like Java if I would have been as effective? Early PHP's sloppiness (paired with early javascript) gave me a lot of flexibility and allowed me to learn things more deeply.
- askonomm 3y agoI do lots of greenfield PHP these days, and honestly I don't see why people would not consider it. It's an extremely pragmatic language and ecosystem to ship things with. By the time I set up a Java project, I'd already have a WIP made with PHP. Modern PHP is strictly typed as well, and actually quite similar to Java, except much faster to actually make things with.
- phatskat 3y agoI started around PHP 4 as well, mostly as a hobby, and I think 5 was around the corner when I started really working in the field. I’d take PHP for a new project in a heartbeat if the shoe fit. My last real PHP project was Laravel+Inertia+Vue and it was a really great workflow for me and my team.