It’s a terrible disorganised mess, it’s inconsistent, it makes very little objective sense, but for some reason we seem to have settled on it as the default.
you are perfectly describing js
PHP is the English of programming languages
Submitted 6 months ago by Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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FiskFisk33@startrek.website 6 months ago
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
its only inconsistant and makes little sense if you stopped paying attention to it at before php 8
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
I only started paying attention to it at 8.3.6 :P
Codpiece@feddit.uk 6 months ago
I think you mean it’s the US English.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
English English, the English I speak, isn’t much better.
Codpiece@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Sorry, when you said English and default I just assumed you were full colonial, and thought you meant simplified English, not British.
markz@suppo.fi 6 months ago
Just wait 'til you learn about JavaScript!
leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
It’s also easy to learn and ready-to-go on just about every shared hosting package on offer.
0x01@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I see how you could draw that conclusion, but it’s definitely far from the default
madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1
Number 7 by github project stats
survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#most-popu…
12 by stack overflow’s survey
sadfitzy@ttrpg.network 6 months ago
It’s not the default, C is.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I meant for webdev.