Moving from Go to PHP Again
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Moving from Go to PHP Again
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Re: Moving from Go to PHP Again
#2For the kinds of applications people tend to build in PHP, PHP is probably a better choice than Go. I'd still do Django or Rails before PHP, but Go just isn't designed to make serverside-rendered database-backed websites especially pleasant to write.
Re: Moving from Go to PHP Again
#3For the kinds of applications people tend to build in PHP, PHP is probably a better choice than Go. I'd still do Django or Rails before PHP, but Go just isn't designed to make serverside-rendered database-backed websites especially pleasant to write.
I have not written a new PHP app in years but recently I had a look at the latest and greatest from the PHP community and its pretty good. The frameworks and tooling look about as good as you will get anywhere and PHP appears to be fast now.
Re: Moving from Go to PHP Again
#4For the kinds of applications people tend to build in PHP, PHP is probably a better choice than Go. I'd still do Django or Rails before PHP, but Go just isn't designed to make serverside-rendered database-backed websites especially pleasant to write.
Buffalo has made it a pretty pleasant experience in the past year or so
Re: Moving from Go to PHP Again
#5For the kinds of applications people tend to build in PHP, PHP is probably a better choice than Go. I'd still do Django or Rails before PHP, but Go just isn't designed to make serverside-rendered database-backed websites especially pleasant to write.
I have not written a new PHP app in years but recently I had a look at the latest and greatest from the PHP community and its pretty good. The frameworks and tooling look about as good as you will get anywhere and PHP appears to be fast now.
As someone who was about to ditch the PHP ecosystem 6 years ago for something like Rails... frameworks like Laravel absolutely changed the PHP ecosystem.
Also since the release of PHP 7.0, core development seems to have really picked up with good stuff in every release (7.3 was just released a few months ago).
Re: Moving from Go to PHP Again
#6Can relate, after 7+ years I am again using WordPress and PHP again. I am impressed by PHP 7.
Re: Moving from Go to PHP Again
#7Oh man, yes! Doctrine and especially Symfony's Form component absolutely spoiled me.
Check out Sylius for a really solid Symfony based application: https://sylius.com/
Re: Moving from Go to PHP Again
#8For the kinds of applications people tend to build in PHP, PHP is probably a better choice than Go. I'd still do Django or Rails before PHP, but Go just isn't designed to make serverside-rendered database-backed websites especially pleasant to write.
Rest API? Sure. Building webpages? I dont think it was made for that... Although Go templates can work, its still not as flexible as you might want it to be.
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#9> Honestly, Go is great. Its simplicity is refreshing and its performance unmatched. I would still pick it if we need a small API or something that requires high throughput.
I wonder which part is performance unmatched?
My opinion would be Crystal language for its simplicity and higher throughput but unmatched performance is behind Rust and C.
Re: Moving from Go to PHP Again
#10For the kinds of applications people tend to build in PHP, PHP is probably a better choice than Go. I'd still do Django or Rails before PHP, but Go just isn't designed to make serverside-rendered database-backed websites especially pleasant to write.
I have not written a new PHP app in years but recently I had a look at the latest and greatest from the PHP community and its pretty good. The frameworks and tooling look about as good as you will get anywhere and PHP appears to be fast now.
Symfony and Laravel are really nice.
It's still a horrible abomination of a language that invites bugs and requires A LOT of care to not produce buggy code, though.