• decavolt@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    People sure like to dunk on PHP. I’ll take whatever flak for this, but this is the kind of meme a .NET fanboy or Ruby on Rails bro would make when they haven’t touched any languages other then their prescious, and don’t know wtf they’re talking about.

    PHP, after all these years, is STILL running 78% of all sites. That’s not because it’s garbage or the worst. It’s solid, reliable, mature and very well documented. And I say this as someone who has gladly moved to Python, but also work in in others.

    • Worthstream@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Most of the hate for php was born back in version 3 or 4, when it was a mess. Also a lot of people who where in college in those years learned php as a first language.

      Combine a language that does not enforce good coding practices and a lot of people making their first website, and you get some pretty horrible codebases.

      As part of my job is to maintain legacy php websites, I’ve seen lovercraftian nightmares. I love modern php, but I get where all this hate is coming from.

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      1 year ago

      PHP was the first language I did any significant coding in. I will never use it again if I can at all avoid it.