Yep, PHP is turning 30 this year! Wondering if "PHP is still relevant?" Ever since we have been hearing that PHP is dead. It was “dead” 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and “is dead” today. But somehow - it isn’t. Anyway... happy birthday!

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[–] paulbg@programming.dev 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

bro ive been doing fullstack js dev for severals years to then realize php is superior💀

[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

W-what? Did you used js as backend? How was performance?

[–] percent 6 points 1 week ago

Thanks to web browser development, there has been quite a lot of focus/investment into JS runtime optimizations. Since the server-side runtime environments use those same JS engines, performance tends to be quite good.

[–] PolarKraken@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

Happens a lot - my (quite small) shop was using NestJS for backends and my boss is way more experienced and wise than me. I unintentionally caused us to switch over to Python, which probably sounds as silly as JS to many, but - we deliver dope shit, on time and on budget 🤷‍♂️

[–] yessikg@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

From my experience as a user? Not great if you are using a popular app

[–] darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

Well better late than never.

[–] 3x3@lemy.lol 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only reason php is still alive is Facebook

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

WordPress?