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Dear Go – Thank You for Teaching Me PHP Was a Waste of My Time

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Post by _JamesA_ » Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 6:40 PM UTC

Dear Go – Thank You for Teaching Me PHP Was a Waste of My Time
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Re: Dear Go – Thank You for Teaching Me PHP Was a Waste of My Time

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Post by azeirah » Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 7:01 PM UTC

Whether the author is right or not, the tone of the article is so intensively dismissive and the arguments are so poorly supported by insults, that it's barely worth reading at all.

My view?

The author may be right, PHP may be a worse choice over Go when you're aiming to create a massive "serverless" structure. Then again, it doesn't consider any of the potential future directions PHP may take over the coming 5 years.

In addition to that, some of the largest sites run on PHP (Facebook, Wikipedia, ...), and I don't know why they should quit any time soon.

Lastly, even if Go overtakes PHP on serverless, it's not clear whether PHP was even a great target for serverless architectures to begin with. In my personal experience, PHP shines for small to middle-size applications, and companies like Facebook prove that it's suitable for gargantuan applications too.

TL;DR: bad article

Re: Dear Go – Thank You for Teaching Me PHP Was a Waste of My Time

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Post by troffed » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 11:36 AM UTC

azeirah wrote: post #2

Whether the author is right or not, the tone of the article is so intensively dismissive and the arguments are so poorly supported by insults, that it's barely worth reading at all. My view? The author may be right, PHP may be a worse choice over Go when you're aiming to create a massive "serverless" structure. Then again, it doesn't consider any of the potential future directions PHP may take over the coming 5 years…

I agree every word.

The article shows a very bad future for PHP, that's known for all of us it's not the holly grial for every developer needs, but I don't can forecast that dark panorama for the PHP. The latest versions are opening a different paths, their performance are continuously improving, and I'm sure that we'll use PHP in serverless.

The author writes about their personal preferences, that's good for him, but it's not true for all the developers.