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As a vaguely-related anecdote, I wrote a super-hacky PHP script in highschool 20 years ago, it gained some popularity based on being open-source and easy-to-ins
by Shish2k 3y ago
As a vaguely-related anecdote, I wrote a super-hacky PHP script in highschool 20 years ago, it gained some popularity based on being open-source and easy-to-install (PHP’s #1 strength for sure) - and to this day I am still spending a significant chunk of development time refactoring based on ideas that eg Typescript and Rust have out of the box (eg using PHPStan to emulate a language with typed arrays)
(I keep wishing that I could rewrite it in a “better” language, but there is no other language that is even in the same ballpark when it comes to “any random user can upload this .php file to any random web host and expect it to work”)