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Re: $PHP = ;

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Post by jamiethompson » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:25 PM UTC

ghaydarov wrote: post #2

Is it just me, was author sarcastic all along? Hearing for the first time that reinventing the wheel is a good thing.

100% sarcasm

Source: I'm British.

Re: $PHP = ;

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Post by wmil » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:25 PM UTC

hedora wrote: post #4

Is node really single threaded?!? What do people use it for? Interactive Prodigy games, or trawling AOL forums?

It's the whole point of node. Instead of threading it's all async. Then you just spawn more processes to take advantage of your additional cores.

It's a simpler model than trying to make everything thread safe and guess the correct number of threads.

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Post by jimjag » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:26 PM UTC

Many languages WISH they were as popular and as useful as PHP.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:27 PM UTC

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Post by devsmt » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:27 PM UTC

Sarcastic remark about the latest fad inconclusiveness.

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Post by donatj » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:28 PM UTC

pigeonlaser wrote: post #8

This made my day: Things You Can’t do as a PHP Developer - Tell people you’re a PHP developer

Especially at non-language specific conferences. I was at a talk once on Clojure where the speakers spent quite a bit of his opening bashing PHP.

Later he asked the audience what language they use, and as everyone blurted out theirs, I blurt out PHP. There was a literal gasp from the audience.

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Post by bpizzi » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:28 PM UTC

While being sarcastic and not really giving any meaningful technical information (which is fine!), this quick read made me remember that I definitely became more productive when I stopped seeing myself as a '[php/node/ruby/c/whatever] programmer' and started describing me as a 'problem solver using the best tools for a given context'.

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Post by superasn » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:29 PM UTC

I get that the author is joking but seriously Php is still the best language to get shit done even today. For small businesses Php is still the best thing that has happened for them.

Also just yesterday I found this tweet by the creator of nomadlist which really puts things into perspective :)

https://mobile.twitter.com/levelsio/status/93870716650815488...

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Post by JeanMarcS » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:30 PM UTC

krisives wrote: post #9

Syntax error in a headline because HN can’t do emojis

That’s exactly why I read the post, asking me where it will go with this strange statement;

Then I saw the emoji and thought « Ah. One more »

And then finally it was fun.

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Post by raresp » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:31 PM UTC

"By writing their own framework, a developer can truly separate themselves from their competition by reinventing the wheel in a way that makes sense to them."

Now I know you're not a good developer. Do you want to reinvent the wheel everytime you code? Have you heard about composer packages? About libraries with millions of downloads? About symfony components and many more reusable components.

You are too ignorant to see how much PHP evolved in the last 3 years.

Legitimate asynchronous programming - false, there is: https://reactphp.org/ and https://amphp.org/

Build your own React TODO MVC app boilerplate - React Js is a javascript framework, do you know what you're saying there? lol

Program in JavaScript - most PHP devs become JS devs