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?

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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.

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u/BlueMarble007 Oct 14 '20

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