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?

• Pyroglyph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • amju_wolf@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • amju_wolf@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        …so you have not, in fact, used PHP in the past decade or so. Thanks for letting us know.

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  • sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re welcome to like what you like

    The person upthread got downvoted for what they like. 🤷

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