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Friendly reminder that a PHP thread on HN cannot be had without the following: * complaints about features it has or has not * some snarky comments on the arg
by pearjuice 12y ago
Friendly reminder that a PHP thread on HN cannot be had without the following:
* complaints about features it has or has not
* some snarky comments on the argument orders
* a reference to that "a fractal of bad design" article
* how language x is better
* nothing big has been built in PHP
* facebook has been built in PHP
* sarcastic and or ironic notes about the above
- lotsofcows 12y agoYou missed the comparison to "better" languages.
- lotsofcows 12y agoReplying to my own post with an eg: The "several reason for choosing PHP" surely apply to Python even more than they do to PHP?
- eloisant 12y agoI'd say the number one reason a lot of open source projects use PHP (Wordpress, Magento, etc.) is because that's what you can run on dirt-cheap shared hosting. I'm not sure why PHP got in that situation, but I expect that to change with VM and Docker becoming pretty cheap. Now you can have a low-cost hosting of any language.
- tegansnyder 12y agoHave fun running Magento on dirt-cheap shared hosting.
- imanaccount247 12y agoIt is interesting, because as I read through the thread I see nothing but people justifying their like of/use of PHP despite nobody questioning it to begin with. The number of expert beginners (http://www.daedtech.com/tag/expert-beginner http://www.daedtech.com/tag/expert-beginner) in the PHP community seems very high, and they seem very insecure about their choice.
- krapp 12y agoThat may be the case, but it is also the case that Hacker News can be hostile towards PHP and anyone who uses it. No one questions the intellectual capabilities of people who choose Python or RoR for a project, but it happens in threads about PHP with enough regularity that it's not surprising people feel defensive about it. Although, this seems to have died down a bit lately.