Is PHP becoming irrelevant? It still comprises the vast majority of web pages out there. Maybe that has been going down but with he amount of competing languages and systems out there, that is to be expected.

Either way, it's an awesome language, happily been using it for decades now

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PHP is horrible, I hate it, and I will not elaborate. Good day, sir.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well that is an excellent argument if I ever heard one...

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I said good day sir!

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good day to you too, how have you been?

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not too bad. Just chillin'. How 'bout you?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Very fine! Nice cool day today.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Either way, it’s an awesome language, happily been using it for decades now

Mind taking a moment to share why you like it? I am not very familiar with it.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

... And it's one of the languages everybody craps on. Like, I've seen people compare JavaScript favourably to it.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah they do, with no real reason, really. Oohh, "some functions use underscore and others don't!" And? It's not a problem, really. Every language has baggage from the past and PHP kept it for stability, I'm happy with that.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

“some functions use underscore and others don’t!”

That's weird, but more of an aesthetics issue than anything. JavaScript will actually decide to behave oddly for no reason; if that's it it's still king of the shitbirds.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Quite early on the eyes, powerful, fast to build and rolk out projects, about. A billion libraries with all the functions you'll ever need. People both about it because it has some language quirks from way back in the beginning, I see it as stability. I don't know how node is now but I remember a few years back where every bug fix came accompanied not only by 10 new bugs but also a bunch of interface changes that immediately broke everything. Every. Single. Damn. Time.

Having said that, it under very active development and has been majorly improved over the years. Dumb design choices are no long available and right now it's quite easy to work securely with it.

Beyond the "but these two functions should have similar naming but they don't!" argument, that with a good editor doesn't matter anyway, there isn't really a good argument out there not to use it.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Depends on how you're judging relevance.

93% of webpages could be PHP because of Wordpress, but that doesn't necessarily mean there's a lot of PHP developers.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

If that hypothetical 93% is WordPress, there's still a huge demand for PHP developers to maintain that and the plugins and so

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Perhaps it was before Facebook came along

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

Wikimedia, WordPress, Drupal....

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Nah, something like 93% of all websites on the planet were PHP when Facebook came around, thanks to WordPress.