PHP: a fractal of bad design
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(This article has been translated into Spanish (PDF, with some additions) by Jorge Amado Soria Ramirez — t
  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    43·
    11 months ago

    ha this ancient, out of date piece. i guess its good for pointing out most of this nonsense was solved for in the last <checks watch> 12 years

    use modern frameworks, practices and versions and php is not a problem

    • helmet91@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Exactly.

      Also, besides the fact that over this time PHP transformed into a whole different language, most of the concepts the author is dissatisfied with, are just nuances.

      There are a few valid points as well.

      Overall, if I were to use a scripting language for web development, I would 100% pick PHP, as that’s the best suited language for the job. Nowadays, however, I go with Rust because I wanna squeeze out as much performance as I reasonably can.

      For single use scripts and smaller tools on my desktop, I used Python in the past, and then I learned Ruby. I’m sticking with Ruby for these use cases.