• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Is PHP becoming irrelevant? It still comprises the vast majority of web pages out there. Maybe that has been going down but with he amount of competing languages and systems out there, that is to be expected.

    Either way, it’s an awesome language, happily been using it for decades now

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      2 years ago

      Either way, it’s an awesome language, happily been using it for decades now

      Mind taking a moment to share why you like it? I am not very familiar with it.

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        2 years ago

        Quite early on the eyes, powerful, fast to build and rolk out projects, about. A billion libraries with all the functions you’ll ever need. People both about it because it has some language quirks from way back in the beginning, I see it as stability. I don’t know how node is now but I remember a few years back where every bug fix came accompanied not only by 10 new bugs but also a bunch of interface changes that immediately broke everything. Every. Single. Damn. Time.

        Having said that, it under very active development and has been majorly improved over the years. Dumb design choices are no long available and right now it’s quite easy to work securely with it.

        Beyond the “but these two functions should have similar naming but they don’t!” argument, that with a good editor doesn’t matter anyway, there isn’t really a good argument out there not to use it.

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      2 years ago

      Depends on how you’re judging relevance.

      93% of webpages could be PHP because of Wordpress, but that doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a lot of PHP developers.

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        2 years ago

        If that hypothetical 93% is WordPress, there’s still a huge demand for PHP developers to maintain that and the plugins and so