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Was anyone else surprised to see Kbin being written in PHP? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programming@beehaw.org

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I don't know if it's due to over-exposure to programming memes but I certainly believed that no one was starting new PHP projects in 2023 (or 2020, or 2018, or 2012...). I was under the impression we only still discussed it at all because WordPress is still around.

Would a PHP evangelist like to disabuse me of my notions and make an argument for using PHP for projects such as Kbin in this day and age?

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[–] indorock@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's such an outdated meme to shit on PHP. PHP 8.3 is absolutely nothing like PHP < 5. It's become a full-fledged, performant and secure language. I've been coding PHP since 2005, and I've seen it grow and become incredibly capable. Sure I do recognise that other languages are still more "popular" and respected, and as such I've been focusing more and more on Node/Typescript in recent years, but PHP isn't going anywhere. And its package ecosystem is so much more reliable and stable than say NPM.

[–] VerifiablyMrWonka@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention that the defacto package manager (composer) blows NPM out of the water in basically all metrics. From what I understand most languages package managers now look up to or even model themselves on it.

[–] operator@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I have worked with composer, npm etc. All of those out there, but why is composer superior in your opinion? wouldn't be able to pin point anything