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Go with PHP
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Re: Go with PHP
#132As a fullstack developer who has worked many, many years in the javascript hellhole, I mean ecosystem, as well as the python ecosystem and .NET; coming back to PHP the last 2 years, working essentially in Laravel and the like - I couldn't approve more of this message. Seriously, PHP is the grand father that will drive you to class and you'll never be late, the car will never smell and everything will always just be f…
This 100%. It's actually a bit of a red flag to me these days if a developer turns up their nose at PHP. The language has matured a lot and building stuff with it is simple, cheap, straightforward and fast. If someone's still hating on PHP in 2023 it makes me wonder if they've been focused on more exotic technology because they were looking to pad their resume with more expensive skills, build science projects for th…
> It's actually a bit of a red flag to me these days if a developer turns up their nose at PHP.
Depends on the reasons. One good reason for preferring another language is .NET/Java business app developers can earn a lot more here than PHP developers ;)
Re: Go with PHP
#133As a fullstack developer who has worked many, many years in the javascript hellhole, I mean ecosystem, as well as the python ecosystem and .NET; coming back to PHP the last 2 years, working essentially in Laravel and the like - I couldn't approve more of this message. Seriously, PHP is the grand father that will drive you to class and you'll never be late, the car will never smell and everything will always just be f…
This 100%. It's actually a bit of a red flag to me these days if a developer turns up their nose at PHP. The language has matured a lot and building stuff with it is simple, cheap, straightforward and fast. If someone's still hating on PHP in 2023 it makes me wonder if they've been focused on more exotic technology because they were looking to pad their resume with more expensive skills, build science projects for th…
To be blunt, you are a terrible hiring manager if your red flag is “they haven’t got an up-to-date opinion about the shitty-history language that I’m personally into”.
This just sounds like PHP Stockholm syndrome with extra steps.
Re: Go with PHP
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
This 100%. It's actually a bit of a red flag to me these days if a developer turns up their nose at PHP. The language has matured a lot and building stuff with it is simple, cheap, straightforward and fast. If someone's still hating on PHP in 2023 it makes me wonder if they've been focused on more exotic technology because they were looking to pad their resume with more expensive skills, build science projects for th…
Don't you dare to tell me that my isomorphic Node trpc graphql with redux and sagas on top of next.js with SSG and SSR and parts in server components with my home grown validation and ORM framework and still no translations because they don't work together with everything else and deployed on serverless docker lambdas to a kubernetes cluster is over engineering a landing page with a contact form. So fast! That's a st…
You described the marketing website of my previous employer.
Re: Go with PHP
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
The documentation reads like a tutorial, which is fine the first time you read it, and really annoying the next 99 times when you're just trying to find something. My biggest gripe though is that the majority of classes / methods aren't locally documented with comments, or only minimally. If I don't understand how a certain parameter behaves (or even what a function does), I have to go online and search for examples,…
Yep, the tutorials/guides are really good, but as you say, the details aren't really covered. There are so many examples like "relationsToArray(): Get the model's relationships in array form."[1] Just an expanded version of the method name with no context or detail. [1]: https://laravel.com/api/10.x/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Mo...
The good ol' "you thought docs, but actually generated no information gain and no docs, ha tricked you! but look at how fancy our docs website looks" kind of documentation style.
Re: Go with PHP
#136As a fullstack developer who has worked many, many years in the javascript hellhole, I mean ecosystem, as well as the python ecosystem and .NET; coming back to PHP the last 2 years, working essentially in Laravel and the like - I couldn't approve more of this message. Seriously, PHP is the grand father that will drive you to class and you'll never be late, the car will never smell and everything will always just be f…
> Laravel is [...] reasonably well documented Hard disagree. Sorry, I don't have a computer science degree, why does their documentation make that assumption. I find their docs very hard to grok. PHP.net docs are no-frills no-fuss, straight to the point. Other frameworks are documented very well too, CakePHP comes to mind (at least, when I was using it last in v2 and v3). I can't say I've read the absolute latest ver…
Agree. Last time I tried Laravel the documentation was lacking a bit. E.g. there are lot of "automagic" things that aren't explained. And then you are left wondering with things like "Must the names of those 2 things really match for it to work?".
Re: Go with PHP
#137As a fullstack developer who has worked many, many years in the javascript hellhole, I mean ecosystem, as well as the python ecosystem and .NET; coming back to PHP the last 2 years, working essentially in Laravel and the like - I couldn't approve more of this message. Seriously, PHP is the grand father that will drive you to class and you'll never be late, the car will never smell and everything will always just be f…
This 100%. It's actually a bit of a red flag to me these days if a developer turns up their nose at PHP. The language has matured a lot and building stuff with it is simple, cheap, straightforward and fast. If someone's still hating on PHP in 2023 it makes me wonder if they've been focused on more exotic technology because they were looking to pad their resume with more expensive skills, build science projects for th…
There's plenty of stacks that I'd say qualify as "simple, cheap, straightforward, and fast" (modern Java, for instance - huge red flag to me if people still turn up their nose at Java), including some that you'd probably consider exotic (honourable mention: Elixir+Phoenix).
I personally never liked PHP, so I haven't kept up with how it has developed and I don't expect to start, to be honest. Of course, if you've got an otherwise interesting project that happens to be PHP and want to pay me to help you with it, I'll be professional about it, but there are too many alternatives that appeal to me more than PHP for anything where I have a say.
Re: Go with PHP
#138For me the best platform is one that's easy to debug and the debugging story for php is one of the worst. Otherwise it would still be quite hard to read. But at least it's cheap to host.
Re: Go with PHP
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Laravel is [...] reasonably well documented Hard disagree. Sorry, I don't have a computer science degree, why does their documentation make that assumption. I find their docs very hard to grok. PHP.net docs are no-frills no-fuss, straight to the point. Other frameworks are documented very well too, CakePHP comes to mind (at least, when I was using it last in v2 and v3). I can't say I've read the absolute latest ver…
The documentation for Laravel is still unreadable. Guess that is why selling Laravel tutorials seems to be a fruitful business.
Laravel tutorials are a fruitful business because PHP still quite rightfully carries its legacy of being the noob language.
I’m sure that plenty of us used PHP in the day, have been doing something else for a while, and see these HN posts from the people that stuck by PHP singing its praises. Let’s not forget that there’s probably been a steady stream of newbies coming through the system the entire time - which makes the language, and by extension Laravel, a prime target for bottom feeding ‘one step ahead of the audience’ “educational” content producing scum.
Re: Go with PHP
#140Any programmers here who've used PHP to build command line tools in PHP? What is the experience like compared to, let's say Python or node.js? How good are the facilities? What are the limitations?
here's a nice goodie https://github.com/nunomaduro/termwind