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What do I think? Honestly?? Meta-answer: The choice to conduct a poll to ask what HN members think of PHP is not the best wayto move forward. Is this actionabl

What do I think? Honestly?? Meta-answer: The choice to conduct a poll to ask what HN members think of PHP is not the best wayto move forward. Is this actionable? Why are you asking whether PHP drives us crazy, as opposed to a question like "Which language/framework should I use for building a Webapp in my spare time?" What do you plan to do with our answer? If you are just shooting the breeze here, write a blog post! If you are going to make a concrete decision, tell us what it is so that we can give you realistic advice. Second, polls are ridiculously biased, especially with the question you asked. Your question presumes we use PHP, it drives us crazy, and we keep using it! Do you think anyone who doesn't use PHP will say "No PHP doesn't drive me crazy because I build webapps in Erlang?" Are you looking for PHP delelopers to tell you that they aren't crazy and to suggest why? The question is remarkably unclear. My personal advice is to decide what decision you're trying to make and then do some research. Are you thinking of switching away from PHP? Looking for libraries/tips to make it saner? Or what? When you figure out what you want to do it should be simple to use the Internet to get answers.

zyb09 17y ago
I don't wanna poll anybody, sorry if there was a misunderstandig. I'm not trying to build some Webapp in my spare time here. I've written now tons of PHP in the last 3-4 weeks on an internal project and it's pretty much running and functional by now. Definitely not in a phase we're I wanna switch frameworks or something. Somehow though, lots of stuff you do in PHP doesn't quite feel right and you constantly get the feeling that anything can break at anytime. If you're mixing in jquery and doing lots of ajax requests, you're just cross-calling functions anywhere around some loosely tied together code. When you even have to think hard about what kind of scope your variables & code are living in, it seems hard to get solid sturucture in PHP. So I was just wondering if that happens to everybody, that dares to touch this language :>

zyb09 17y ago

I don't wanna poll anybody, sorry if there was a misunderstandig. I'm not trying to build some Webapp in my spare time here. I've written now tons of PHP in the last 3-4 weeks on an internal project and it's pretty much running and functional by now. Definitely not in a phase we're I wanna switch frameworks or something. Somehow though, lots of stuff you do in PHP doesn't quite feel right and you constantly get the feeling that anything can break at anytime. If you're mixing in jquery and doing lots of ajax requests, you're just cross-calling functions anywhere around some loosely tied together code. When you even have to think hard about what kind of scope your variables & code are living in, it seems hard to get solid sturucture in PHP. So I was just wondering if that happens to everybody, that dares to touch this language :>