Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go • Hacker News Board

Re: Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go

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Post by TigerHimself » Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 11:50 PM UTC

mattigames wrote: post #6

PunchTornado wrote: post #5

> PHP is having trouble keeping up with modern language which are these modern languages and which are the cases where it is not keeping up? IMO PHP is one of the languages where development is really quick and the ecosystem is flourishing.

A great way to look into the future of languages is checking how many people is learning it now compared to the last few years, a great tool for that is google trends and things don't look good for PHP: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p...

So you are saying that PHP is dying since 2004. That’s ridiculous. There are new languages and more alternatives today that’s it.

Re: Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go

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Post by mcrittenden » Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 11:54 PM UTC

jacob019 wrote: post #9

Can I run WordPress on it today?

No: https://github.com/MagicalTux/goro/blob/master/README.md#tod...

Re: Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go

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Post by colecut » Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 11:55 PM UTC

mattigames wrote: post #6

PunchTornado wrote: post #5

> PHP is having trouble keeping up with modern language which are these modern languages and which are the cases where it is not keeping up? IMO PHP is one of the languages where development is really quick and the ecosystem is flourishing.

A great way to look into the future of languages is checking how many people is learning it now compared to the last few years, a great tool for that is google trends and things don't look good for PHP: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p...

There is also this to consider

https://haydenjames.io/80-percent-web-powered-by-php/

Re: Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go

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Post by waitwhatt » Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 11:57 PM UTC

johnwheeler wrote: post #3

Interesting. This is a repo from Mark Karpeles, the former MtGox CEO

Hah. You can lose people hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets and because it is magic internet money and not real money, you are coding instead of in jail.

Re: Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go

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Post by muglug » Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 11:59 PM UTC

> PHP is a nice language but is having trouble keeping up with modern languages

It's only "having trouble" because it can't change its API from month to month to match whatever's in vogue. A majority of the web still runs on some variant of PHP, and that guarantees that it's not dying anytime soon.

More broadly, it seems the author wants to create a version of PHP that's not focussed on web requests, which is sort of the entire point of PHP.