$PHP = ;

#1

Post by exonintrendo » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 1:56 PM UTC

$PHP = ;
medium.com

Re: $PHP = ;

#2

Post by ghaydarov » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:17 PM UTC

Is it just me, was author sarcastic all along? Hearing for the first time that reinventing the wheel is a good thing.

#3

Post by Operyl » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:19 PM UTC

ghaydarov wrote: post #2

Is it just me, was author sarcastic all along? Hearing for the first time that reinventing the wheel is a good thing.

Given the footer, yeah they’re being sarcastic.

#4

Post by hedora » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:19 PM UTC

Is node really single threaded?!?

What do people use it for? Interactive Prodigy games, or trawling AOL forums?

#5

Post by seba_dos1 » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:20 PM UTC

Both are terrible languages, popular only because of being the first to target some important niche. There is no flame war to make here :)

#6

Post by stanlarroque » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:20 PM UTC

ghaydarov wrote: post #2

Is it just me, was author sarcastic all along? Hearing for the first time that reinventing the wheel is a good thing.

I could tell it was sarcastic all along: he mentioned mongodb.

#7

Post by donatj » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:21 PM UTC

hedora wrote: post #4

Is node really single threaded?!? What do people use it for? Interactive Prodigy games, or trawling AOL forums?

They use it to spend hours of their day hiding the fact that it’s single threaded by doing EVERYTHING asynchronously.

It’s a great time sink.

#8

Post by pigeonlaser » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:22 PM UTC

This made my day: Things You Can’t do as a PHP Developer - Tell people you’re a PHP developer

#9

Post by krisives » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:24 PM UTC

Syntax error in a headline because HN can’t do emojis

#10

Post by vgy7ujm » Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 2:24 PM UTC

Now lets move to Perl 6.