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Was anyone else surprised to see Kbin being written in PHP? (lemmy.sdf.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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[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The 80% stem mostly from WordPress and a bunch of domain placeholders.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure but there's also Pornhub, Wikipedia, and Facebook which use PHP. Other large websites use PHP too.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Facebook doesn't really use PHP, but Hack, which is afair a PHP dialect and runtime/compiler.

[–] YMS@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

WordPress, Joomla, Typo3, Drupal, ... PHP is pretty much omnipresent in CMS systems. It's not a huge number of different PHP CMS, but it results in a huge number of websites being PHP-based. The vast majority of those websites don't care for the programming language - they pick an existing CMS so they don't have to do their own programming.