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pestaa's comment needs to be amended. It should read: "A sane engineer with a little bit of experience would not start off with PHP to build anything at all in
by Legion 13y ago
pestaa's comment needs to be amended. It should read: "A sane engineer with a little bit of experience would not start off with PHP to build anything at all in 2013."
Facebook's former CTO has said that the only reason Facebook is still on PHP still today is legacy. It wouldn't be written in PHP if it were started today.
PHP once was the right tool for the job, but those years have passed. We have many better options now.
- vidarh 13y agoWe have many technically cleaner solutions, but in the real world other factors, such as ability to quickly hire sufficient number of reasonably priced developers, often means a lot more than technical purity. A sane engineer considers the full pictures before picking a solution rather than pick their pet languages just because it's nice and clean.