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"PHP should be dead" Says who ? PHP works. Has a great ecosystem. A hell of a lot more stable than JavaScript ecosystem and package management. Tons of investm
by codegeek 2y ago
"PHP should be dead"
Says who ? PHP works. Has a great ecosystem. A hell of a lot more stable than JavaScript ecosystem and package management. Tons of investment in frameworks like Symfony and Laravel. Great out of the box Hosting options. It just works. Upload index.php and boom. Then you have the beast: WordPress.
Don't get me wrong. I like other languages too (except JavaScript). There is a place for every language and PHP is no different.
I honestly think that PHP haters are just jealous because its supposed to die (in their own minds) but they are not able to accept that it is everywhere.
- 01-_- 2y agothat was the most fantastic approach here. You're completely right
- DimmieMan 2y ago"says who" Says the likely majority of us who've only experienced WordPress. The experience of having to fix your companies hodge podge of dubious quality plugins in an antiquated code base. Then there's the legacy PHP applications... I'm not actually rejecting your point as such, Laravel is on my to look kick the tires list and modern PHP looks fine but I can empathise with anyone that comes out with the impression its an awful technology. "I like other languages too (except JavaScript)." Situation seems similar come to think of it, ~ last 5 years of tooling & language features compared to what it was 10 years ago might as well be different language & ecosystem. Not suggesting everything is fixed in JS/TS land but as long as you remain dubious of anything from Vercel or Meta things aren't that bad.
- muzani 2y ago"except JavaScript" This might be the most accurate answer in the thread lol. It's like the river and the sea, there's just a barrier between them with entirely different ecosystems.