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Was anyone else surprised to see Kbin being written in PHP? (self.programming)
submitted 1 year ago by WatTyler to c/programming@beehaw.org
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I don't know if it's due to over-exposure to programming memes but I certainly believed that no one was starting new PHP projects in 2023 (or 2020, or 2018, or 2012...). I was under the impression we only still discussed it at all because WordPress is still around.

Would a PHP evangelist like to disabuse me of my notions and make an argument for using PHP for projects such as Kbin in this day and age?

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[-] iliketrains@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Modern PHP is quite performant and nice to work with and it's still improving! Also frameworks like Laravel is very established.

When comparing the time when I use PHP and JavaScript, I love the simplicity and versatility of JavaScript but PHP's strongly typed (with runtime support) and object oriented language often make more sense imo.

I think the strong benefit of using JavaScript for backend comes down to being able to have unified full-stack codebases, one language fits all kind of thing.

[-] werni@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

PHP's strongly typed and object oriented language

man, PHP has come a long way!

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