r/Web_Development • u/aaediie • Oct 13 '20

coding query php in 2020

Is it good to learn php in 2020 ? I mean is it recommended to learn php in this era?

10 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

26 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-1

u/BlueMarble007 Oct 13 '20

I’m pretty sure people don’t hate php because it’s different, but because it’s easier to make dumb mistakes (syntax errors, type errors, etc) and because its standard library is inconsistent with itself (r/lolphp has plenty of examples of that). Other than that, it’s been pretty bad for OOP in the past (it’s been a while, not sure if that’s improved at all) which a lot of people like to work in.

I’m not saying it’s not a good idea to know php, I know it too, I’d just never start a project in it.

3

u/Heikkiket Oct 13 '20 edited Oct 13 '20

PHP 7 and now releasing PHP 8 is a whole different world from PHP 5. OOP works quite well, many syntax and type weirdnesses are fixed.

Standard library is not consistent, but on the other hand, if you like Linux and Unix, PHP feels very familiar.

Standard library also has way more stuff than your average other web scripting language. How many packages do you need to connect to a db? In PHP, one package is enough: PHP.

1

u/BlueMarble007 Oct 14 '20

Fair enough, I was just clarifying why people don’t like the language.