Why is PHP so hated? Stop the fake news: it is really great!

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Dec 21, 2021 44 Comments

Have been working with PHP for years. Still my favorite language to get anything done with quickly. Even for large scale web apps: PHP is still the best, have people tried node or other languages and how painful those are?

Though I’m ok with what Meta has done with Hack, I would honestly prefer plain PHP. Since PHP 7 it is on the same performance level. FB just went wrong with the mono-repo, mono-deploy, no-namespaces combination.

PHP just always had that ‘kiddie-script’ air around it. It wasn’t academically perfect like Java, which is unusable and so over complicated.

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  • New
    snowwolf33

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    snowwolf33
    PHP Eww..🤢
    Dec 21, 2021 2
    • Meta
      qqwrty

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      qqwrty
      OP
      why? don’t just write things. did you ever use it?
      Dec 21, 2021
    • New
      snowwolf33

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      snowwolf33
      I did use it for a couple of years, I prefer Node.js it just works so well when your back-end and front-end are both using JS.
      Dec 21, 2021
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    imawakened

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    imawakened
    Use the language that makes the most sense for your project/company/team. You don’t need to and you should not seek validation from anyone else. You don’t need to or should not justify your choices to anyone else. Period.
    Dec 21, 2021 0
  • New
    griddle

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    griddle
    Java is “academically perfect”?
    Dec 21, 2021 13
  • Bolt
    busta-man

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    busta-man
    definitely depends on how it’s used. someone working at fb or working with laravel probably has a much different opinion than someone who’s only done wordpress
    Dec 21, 2021 0
  • Amazon
    punisher99

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    punisher99
    Not sure about the new versions, but there were some fatal security flaws in the old version.
    Dec 21, 2021 0