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I didn’t touch PHP for a long time but it have a nice place in my heart especially for the reasons you gave. I have a hard time with people joking about PHP be

by pjerem 3y ago

I didn’t touch PHP for a long time but it have a nice place in my heart especially for the reasons you gave. I have a hard time with people joking about PHP because while it wasn’t perfect back in the day, it’s probably the culminating point of the non elitist computing. PHP was accessible to anyone who had the basics of creating an HTML website (which was a skill any random person could acquire in a day or two). Also, the people making those jokes are most of the time working on projects with micro services and SPAs everywhere for a boring business app with CRUD and forms. Which I find pretty ironic since a single PHP monolith solved this exact use case 20 years ago.

kaba0 3y ago
Also, it had dirt-cheap hosting, as a single process could host multiple sites (though it did come with some security implications). Nowadays we tend to bring up a whole virtual OS. An interesting direction in this area might be GraalOS, which might allow running multiple applications in a single OS process, doing the necessary isolation itself. (Not affiliated)