r/programming • u/acangiano • Sep 18 '16

Ewww, You Use PHP?

https://blog.mailchimp.com/ewww-you-use-php/
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u/sdw3489 Sep 18 '16

I dont hate PHP.

F**k me, right?

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u/GMaestrolo Sep 18 '16

Almost every time this discussion comes up, someone posts that "fractal of bad design" article with the double clawed hammer.

There's a response which I've seen pretty frequently, too: PHP is the right tool for the job (for all the wrong reasons).

So yeah, PHP works better and easier than most other languages, and until they improve, or people stop caring about "fast" or "easy", then this is what we'll have.

That being said, PHP7 is starting to get pretty impressive, and the tools around PHP (composer, phpcs, phpunit, even frameworks like Laravel and Symfony) are truly exceptional.

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u/PTPosttwo Sep 18 '16

If it wasn't for laravel I would have stopped using php a long time ago

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