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As a past PHP developer, I don't think of PHP that badly.
by cordite 12y ago
As a past PHP developer, I don't think of PHP that badly.
- kabdib 12y agoAs a current PHP developer, I do. :-)
- karka91 12y agoIf you use it for new stuff with up to date frameworks (e.g. symfony) it's not that bad, really. Since 5.4 it's getting a lot better. If you're stuck with some old version and legacy codebase it's a problem unrelated to the language itself.
- vojant 12y agoAs a PHP developer, I think you are right. In last few years PHP changed a lot! Ofcourse like every tool it's sometimes used wrong way, thats why people complain.
- donatj 12y agoTe biggest problem with PHP is just the mountains of old legacy code and what still passes for "good". The new beta of Wordpress for instance is still largely procedural and untestable, yet powers something like 60% of the web.
- mtbcoder 12y agoWell, to be fair, the flipside to that are some of these new PHP frameworks that attempt to include every pattern known to man and are buried under mountains of worthless abstractions.
- vojant 12y agoYes, and unfortunately if you not agree with this fancy new frameworks, you are considered bad developer.
- meritt 12y agoI'd classify PHP as a Swiss Army Knife. Multi-purpose tool that's decent at a little bit of everything but for long-term and specific operations you should probably replace with a better-suited tool.