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PHP Is Legacy, in 2024

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Re: PHP Is Legacy, in 2024

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Post by robertlagrant »

> the closest someone will probably give as an explanation is a massive rambling blog post written years ago

That blog post is long, but definitely not rambling, and unlike the above quote, is done in good faith. PHP night have improved, but if it has it will likely have used that blog post as a reference.

Re: PHP Is Legacy, in 2024

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Post by johnisgood »

The title is clickbait (no surprise there!).

PHP has its warts, but it also has uses and it is often still my go-to language when developing for web. That is, when I do not go for OpenResty (Lua) or Elixir (Phoenix). Sometimes what I really want is PHP.

Re: PHP Is Legacy, in 2024

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Post by sltkr »

Kinda ironic that because of this post I went to check out php.net for the first time in like a decade, and it turns out the site is down. Doesn't exactly instill confidence that the project is alive and well.

Re: PHP Is Legacy, in 2024

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Post by anonzzzies »

Of course it is not. I see more clients moving back to it or moving to it for the first time. People, rightfully so imho, are starting to hate nextjs (and react is getting a bit of that). It is so much easier to get something running without errors in the logs, for years at a time, and without weird frontend bugs with laravel than it is with nextjs/react. And people are starting to see that; usually after having multiple projects in nextjs over the years, teams changed and disappeared and then someone redeploys, nothing works and there we are.

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Post by [deleted] »

sltkr wrote: post #5

Kinda ironic that because of this post I went to check out php.net for the first time in like a decade, and it turns out the site is down. Doesn't exactly instill confidence that the project is alive and well.

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Re: PHP Is Legacy, in 2024

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Post by agubelu »

robertlagrant wrote: post #3

> the closest someone will probably give as an explanation is a massive rambling blog post written years ago That blog post is long, but definitely not rambling, and unlike the above quote, is done in good faith. PHP night have improved, but if it has it will likely have used that blog post as a reference.

For context, this is the blog post in question:

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

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