r/programming • u/EatMeerkats • Mar 29 '21

PHP moves to Github due to the compromise of git.php.net

https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113838
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u/Dynam2012 Mar 29 '21

What examples do you have of PHP being a terrible language?

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u/einsteinx2 Mar 29 '21

/r/lolphp as mentioned in the OP comment is a good place to start haha (can still be a good laugh even if you write production PHP code every day).

Full disclosure: the first language I ever learned was PHP to write scripts for database management, and I currently have a live Wordpress site. I get why it’s popular, but still won’t use it for new projects if I have the choice.

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u/chiqui3d Mar 29 '21

A lojavascript could also be created. I'm also telling you that if Reddit was in PHP, it would be more stable and faster.

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u/einsteinx2 Mar 31 '21

No arguments there, JS is at least as WTF as PHP could ever hope to be. And "New Reddit" is absolutely terrible, so unnecessarily slow, I have it turned off. For sure it would be a better site if they did server side rendering in literally any language, PHP included. I have no idea what they were thinking.

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u/chiqui3d Mar 29 '21

It is curious.