Comment on If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be?

rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What are you?

  A satanist?

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  • TheFriendlyArtificer@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t lump them in with us! I’m a proud member of the Satanic Temple, and I wouldn’t touch PHP on my most hedonistic night.

    There’s the Devil, and there’s the Devil.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Heh, no, why?

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    • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Haha. I’m sure they’re joking.

      But probably because you chose two languages with relatively scary syntax.

      I don’t know how to create automation to summon extraplanar nightmare creatures, but if I had to start, my first attempt would be PHP, and I know in my heart that getting it working would require C++.

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      • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        @DallE@lemmings.world An extraplanar nightmare creature being summoned by writing a code that is mixture of php and C++.

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      • PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Relatively scary syntax is is nicely said. :)

        Php is absolutely scary.

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      • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Heh, fair enough!

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    • interolivary@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it’s the PHP, makes people doubt your soul’s status that you’d subject yourself willingly to it

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      • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, that’s quite easy - if you judge a language by what it looked like 10 years ago, your opinion doesn’t matter

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• sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who downvoted this person’s preference?

  Like “you preferenced wrong”? “You have the wrong likes”? “You like something different from me?”

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  • Pyroglyph@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The did not follow the hivemind of “Rust good, JS slow, C complex, PHP bad” which clearly means they are in the wrong /s

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  • AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • amju_wolf@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You got it backwards there. PHP was pretty bad (mostly because it was easy to pick up so novice and shitty programmers used it a lot), but got insanely better, and it absolutely stood the test of time - most of modern web still uses it and it isn’t going anywhere. There are also few languages that would have such a robust ecosystem where you could whip up a solid, complete app in a few hours. JS comes close but its ecosystem is a clusterfuck. Everything else has poor third party support - be it libraries, connectors to various services or just simply best practices (for web).

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      • Undertaker@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I would argue but there is nothing to say about clearly wrong statements. PHP was ‘good’ (compared to nothing comparable) and is now no challenger any more. It stays as a result of dullness. “Everything else has poor third party support”? Well let me answer this as accurate as possible: lmao

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    • sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re welcome to like what you like

      The person upthread got downvoted for what they like. 🤷

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