A SCARY statistic about the web 👩‍💻 #code #programming #technology #tech #software #developer

[mansoorsoomro]

fun fact: the creator of PHP created it as a template engine and not a programming language. later down the road, because so many people demanded features in the language, he ended up creating an entire language.

[RickJaeger]

Looks like ~60% of developers hate working with any given language.

[mathiasfantoni]

Been coding PHP since 2012. Was hyped when PHP 8 came out. PHP ain’t that bad lol. Though I also do love Java, C#, C/C++, and Rust.

[qfurgie]

“there are two types of programming languages, those who people hate, and those that people don’t use” -bjarne

[dutmala]

Used to hate php, currently php is currently paying my bills, thanks laravel and 😊react

[wildfoster]

Most of PHP haters don't just know anything about the language, some are stucked with v5, explore V8 bruh!!!, you will really like it 💖

[gardiner_bryant]

PHP, when done right, is one of the best high level languages to use. I have done server-side dev in many languages and, when you work with the language and keep an eye optimization PHP can often be the fastest. I've built an MVC in PHP that can make 50 database reads and 10 writes while rendering a page in less than 40 ms.

[MikeDest]

PHP paid for my first 2 homes. I can’t hate it. Also I’m old enough to remember when people clowned JavaScript like they do PHP now.

[m__]

My theory is that PHP is so popular because it is non invasive. Many more "modern" languages used on the web force you to build an entire web application on their foundation, taking care of serving, routing, etc.

PHP traditionally just runs via FastCGI or web server extension on the existing web server. Just change your "html" file extension to "php" and start using it from what was a static website before. In many cases, that's all you need. Not every website is a complex web application. In fact, 95% are not.

[codeforest]

The PHP world today is galaxies away from the past "hated" versions. PHP today is a robust object oriented language, that can even be strictly typed.
And frameworks like Laravel are really helping people start making really fast and interesting projects.
And, as long as PHP pays my bills, I am satisfied.

AND YES! UPGRADE TO AT LEAST PHP 8.0.*

[iamvish]

Not so. PHP after v8.0 is incredibly well and robust enough to create a highly complex web backend with the help of a good framework like Laravel. We are using Laravel as our API backend with VueJs as the frontend for our SaaS application. It performs incredibly well

[anafro_ru]

Did you see Laravel? Its syntax can beat any other framework's syntax in any language. It is robust and beautiful

[undrgunnr]

I still write PHP daily and love it, the ecosystem is in a good place today

[DerBarrakuda]

php might not be the best language, but for some reason its the language i have the most fun working with. i just like the syntax for some reason

[twistedsymphony]

I love PHP, it's grown tremendously in maturity over the last few revisions too. Really the issue is that it's TOO easy to use, and very forgiving (and they insisted on backwards compatibility with some really terrible early decisions for too long). The language will let you get away with abhorrent practices and still "work" which leads to good programmers having to deal with war-crime level bad code from past developers who didn't know what they were doing.

If you've got a solid code base or you start from scratch with good practices it's real joy to use IMO.

[Codeirie]

“explode()” seems pretty violent for a programming language but ok 😂

[artinzareie]

Well actually PHP 8 is not the mess that every old programmer knows, actually it has adopted tons of features from other languages and has built a great ecosystem for web development.
Actually for web development, after JS, I'll choose PHP.

[TheRythimMan]

Honestly, if it isn't broken don't fix it. As a user a lot of websites and apps that i used to use i can't anymore because an "update" removed, broke, or changed a feature i relied on. It has made me appreciate developers that add security updates but leave their applications largely unchanged. I get that developers like fancy new frameworks and language features but it shouldn't be at the cost of the people who are actually using the software.

[wildfoster]

it's pointless hating a language like PHP, it solves almost all problem related to web programming ranging from easy deployment, features, simplicity and speed ✨💯

PHP is not going anywhere in next 50 years

[johnnydev]

I met 3 kinds of people who literally hate PHP
1) people who never used it and say it's crap just cuz they read it on the internet
2) people who used it in versions like 3, 4 or 5 or maybe early 7
3) hardcore nerdy guys who write everything themselves, preferablly in something like C++ with their own implementation of web server and of course they hate PHP cuz its not "fast enough". Ofc they never wrote production ready code and it's just some kind of PoC