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> most people wouldn’t choose PHP for a new project Is this really true? I used to be a full-time PHP developer but I personally don't touch that language any
by capableweb 3y ago
> most people wouldn’t choose PHP for a new project
Is this really true?
I used to be a full-time PHP developer but I personally don't touch that language anymore. But it's still very popular around the world, I've seen multiple projects start this year use PHP, because that's the language the founders/most developers in the company are familiar with. Probably depends a lot on where in the world you're located.
Last Stack Overflow survey had ~20% of the people answering the survey saying that they still use PHP in some capacity.
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- sroussey 3y agoThe beauty of PHP is that it is stateless and the end of the run, everything is freed. It is difficult to have memory leaks. Personally, I like using Typescript/Javascript on both front end and backend, but I don’t look down at PHP backends at all. And it’s come a long way as a language. I’ve been a fan of rolling your own stdlib as the semantics there are old and weird, but vscode tells you so who cares anymore.