PHP Doesn't Suck Anymore? | Prime Reacts

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[ThePrimeTimeagen]

I have much regret to inform you all that Beastco, commonly referred to as Big Dick Daddy from Cincinnati, wishes to thank everyone but his YT account contains his real name and he refuses to use it with all of you degens due to your degenerate behavior

[aarondfrancis]

Thank you for watching Prime ❤ You're the best.

[neptronix]

Some things he didn't mention:
- mysql calls can be made asynchronously.
- cURL can be asynchronous.
- class preloading can be used to significantly reduce process boot up time.
- close to complete implementation of object oriented programming from other larger languages
- two technologies exist which can cross-compile PHP to C++

[JensRoland]

Fun fact: PHP’s creator Rasmus Lerdorf is from the tiny country of Denmark. Who else is from Denmark, you ask? Well, the creator of TypeScript — and C#. And the creator of Ruby on Rails. And Google’s V8 engine which finally made JavaScript fast enough to be taken seriously as a contender on the server side — also built in Denmark.

Edit: Also the creator of C++.

All this (and more, but this is getting long) from a tiny country of 5M people living mostly off LEGOs and bacon.

[ausd]

My first big language was PHP, so it has a special place in my heart. I can't believe all the great improvements in it since I left it a decade ago. Wow. Very cool. Great video.

[mondotosz]

I started learning PHP during my apprenticeship and the teachers still gave us the 7.3 executable (yes it wasn't that long ago). I read the changelog when php 8 was getting ready to release and my mind was blown when I discovered pattern matching.

[AScribblingTurtle]

Seeing your mind get blown by traits alone made my day. Thank you.

Traits have been around since PHP 5.4. So even if you only get to work on legacy code, chances are you can still use Traits and I love them.
Array destructuring was possibel even pre 7.1 via the list() function. It just got a bit more convenient to write. Some of lists()s downsides still exist.

PHPs improvement is but as we Germans say "Gut Ding will Weile haben".
Or in other words "Good things take time".

[lourensthalen]

Dude I've been programming for almost 25 years now, and I've only just discovered you. I must say I've gotten a big boost because AI also makes my programming life so much easier (especially with other languages that I now feel very comfortable to just dabble with for an afternoon), but this is so good. You get me hyped for things I've been doing for years. This is quite refreshing after watching thousands of tutorials.
Disclaimer: I'm not into gaming/discord as I would lose myself and my sanity, so no twitch and all it's goodness. Glad you also share it on YouTube.

[lpanebr]

This is the BEST reaction video ever! I'm a php programmer. I'm just lol my ass off by your reactions! You've got to make a php side project!

[spamviking]

Nothing wrong with PHP. I've made a career out of fixing PHP apps and with the exception of huge enterprises with millions of users, PHP is more than fast enough for 99% of scenarios.

[GringoDotDev]

Speaking as a recent convert myself, PHP is incredibly productive. And with Laravel + Inertia or Livewire I have never moved faster in the full stack.

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00:00 Introduction to PHP and misconceptions
12:05 Annotations and exception handling improvements
13:13 Switch statement and weak maps
14:07 Enums and type hints
22:19 PHP performance improvements and misconceptions
23:03 PHP's speed is sufficient for most use cases

[MrDpof]

A few days ago, when the php video came out, I was about to go on a mission to post the link to this video as a comment on each of your new videos. I'm glad this video reached you without me having to do anything. To the person who shared this video, thank you, you're a champ. ❤

[ddomingo]

I do miss the LAMP stack + jQuery days. Simpler times. This looks very cool.

[adambickford]

I'm surprisingly impressed. Kinda crazy how much 'convergence' there is across languages, even the ones you least expect.

[Eysvar]

Watching this has made me feel so much better about being forced to learn PHP for my Web Dev class. It looks like I could actually enjoy writing some PHP. Thank you Aaron and Prime.

P.S. Happy Birthday Beastco!

[SXsoft]

"php is better than JS" what i've been telling people for years but eh it's not cool

[crizwts]

I appreciate the work of engineers who were fixing PHP over all those years

[tommyponce]

Let's go PHP, up to date with the needs of the modern programming industry!! Also, Happy Birthday Beastco!!

[nghokengdaniel]

I worked with PHP/JS/TS/GO/Dart/Python, and php is still my goto language for new web projects.
it's the most "it just works" language out there, no compilation, great package managers, decent speed, ...